action button reviews boku no natsuyasumi

Immediately after publishing this post, I will set Action Button Season Two Episode One: Action Button Reviews Boku no Natsuyasumi to "public" on YouTube.com/ActionButton.

It took a long time to get this one to you! I'm sorry it took so long. Hopefully if you watch the video you will understand exactly why I had to sit on this video until summer ended. On the one hand, you'd figure one'd suffer bad luck to talk too much about summer during summer. On the other hand--well, if you narrowly watch the video, you'll see.

I'm hard at work on the rest of the videos in season two. Though not as hard at work as I'd been during season one--because now, I have a *team*. I'll introduce you to them soon.

Next week I plan to step back from all-day season two video production to instead see about some menial tasks. I love keeping stuff secret until the last possible second (if you don't believe me, lol, please anticipate the rest of Season Two), though for now I'll spoil a little bit about these menial tasks: I have about a hundred hours of Fukubukuro content, all pertaining to Action Button Reviews Boku no Natsuyasumi. These Fukubukuro videos, consisting of FAR fewer cuts / elements than one of my edited videos, take only a few minutes each to prepare and export, so I'm going to have myself a miniature kind of vacation next week exporting and posting all that stuff. Man, some of it is really good. We reached a little beyond just regular old commentaried raw gameplay footage for this.

I reckon also that some of you might watch this new video and find yourself wanting, for example, a couple of desktop wallpapers. (I say this because, wow, I have made several (6K!) desktop wallpapers from this video for my SELF. Wow. I am for once a sort of a genuine fan of a thing I made. Maybe that's progress.) I'll try to have a nice little package of that sort of stuff downloadable somewhere by the time I pop over here again.

At any rate, I have been awake for a while, so I'm going to try to keep this short. I hope you like this video. A lot of work of various varieties went into it. I won't publicly promise you that the next video will come sooner than this one did--even though it absolutely will!!--because I realize several of you probably don't believe me when I make estimates. At this point, man, I think what we're doing here is worth the time and effort we put into it, and it's only growing in that worth as these new ones take shape.

Actually, let's not cut this short just yet: in my last post I asked you to tell me which videos you understood I was reviewing for season two. Several of you messaged me lists which were very close if not 100% accurate, though it seems that most viewers think that this next video is about Earthbound. I presume all of those viewers are excruciatingly disappointed right about now, though I hope they at least watch the video that does exist (which was also *extremely* explicitly stated as The Next Video at the end of the previous one, lol) and have a good time.

Apparently some people still consider it spoilers to blatantly list the videos in order, and would rather detective-style extract the games' identities themselves from clues within the videos. Though for the sake of absolute clarity I'll say that our next video is LA Noire, and that Earthbound is the *finale* of season two. My goal is to have the Earthbound review out on Christmas Day, 2023.

You'll notice that the Patreon description has not, for over a year, alluded to "monthly" videos, and that I have unpinned my tweet referencing "monthly" videos from my (currently unused!) Twitter. I'd love to have a video out every month, though I also love making these things beefy and vast. If you'd like more FREQUENT beefy and vast videos, well, it's impossible for us to make these videos at ALL without your support, so please keep it up. Seriously, if it wasn't for you all, I would have such a boring job, one where I probably don't even need to know which brands of HDMI cables are the good ones.

ACTUALLY LET'S KEEP GOING

I am working on a couple of Fukubukuro-related features for which I'd enjoy having a couple viewer-submitted questions. By which I mean, I was thinking of doing some director commentaries for Action Button Season One reviews. I haven't watched any of those reviews since their original premiere dates (not because I hate them, or anything: just because you release these things after having essentially watched them 192 times), so time will have freshened my eyes a fair deal. In other words, I'd like to record a director commentary for the FFVII review sometime soon--like my Death Stranding commentary video, in the "pause and talk" style--so if you have any questions specifically about that review, please feel free to send them either to my inbox here or to hello@actionbutton.com with the subject line "FFVIIR Q&A". If your questions pertain to exact moments from the video, feel free to include a timestamp. That sure will make it easier for me to make sure everything gets talked about! I'd livestream this, of course, though I prefer being able to do it in a more leisurely, multiple-sitting fashion. And it seems like a heck of a neat idea for bonus content.

Anyway, I'm mostly just delirium-typing now. Uh. I don't think I had anything else to say. I hope you like the video, and I'll be back soon to tell you to check out the new Fukubukuro content!

ACTUALLY LET ME TELL YOU ONE MORE THING REAL QUICK

I haven't been able to log in to Patreon on my desktop or even laptop computers since my last post. Every attempt I make gives me a "we need to verify your device" prompt. Patreon says they sent an email. The email never comes. I check all my various spam filters and folders. I make sure Patreon is whitelisted on my domain, et cetera. Nothin. I can still log in on my phone--which is where I'm typing this. Though I can't access most features from the mobile version of Patreon (ie, The Money). I'd say I'm Working On It, though aside from sending several increasingly less polite emails and Twitter DMs to Patreon's support team, I don't know what "working on it" means. Google around and you will see that Patreon creators have been complaining since 2018 (or earlier?) about this issue. Oh well. I'm working on it. In the meantime, I have created a channel on the Action Button Discord server (aka The Action Button Goblin Bunker), called "Fukubukuro," intended just for Patreon backers. I will be in there every day--probably even AFTER they let me back in here. Anyway, please enjoy the video. I think you will find it easy to do so!