Hello, people who completed their service and are thus guaranteed citizenship in the world of Starship Soupers!
As my democracy enjoyers, I have some democracy for you. The next video as intended was supposed to be an incredibly exhaustive look into nuclear weapons and their proliferation from after the Second World War up to the Cuban Missile Crisis. I've hit a few snags with that video in the shape of breaking up with one of the Museum Director's daughters, and now needing to ask sa...
2024-07-01 08:40:48 +0000 UTC
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Okay, everyone! I need some audience participation!!
Before you there are two thumbnails. Please vote for the one you like the most. Suggestions and tweaks are welcome:
2024-04-11 19:51:28 +0000 UTC
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ITS DONE!! ITS FINALLY HERE!! WE POSTING AGAIN! CONTENT SOUP IS POURING DOWN YOUR THROATS AS WE SPEAK!! THE SOUP IS A LITTLE THICK, BUT THE PRICE IS RIGHT!
Thanks to everyone for sticking with me for as long as they have while I got this out the door. It's been a real effort to do it. But I'm happy with it!
That being said, I will take recommendations for a better thumbnail than the one I used here and put together in a hot minute. Please. No idea too bad!
Video goes out...
2024-04-09 13:00:10 +0000 UTC
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This is for you, Will! (And anyone else who'd prefer to listen via Patreon's embedded audio)
2024-01-05 18:08:21 +0000 UTC
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Here's a trial run pilot episode for a podcast - if you guys like it it can become some solid Patreon bonus content and possibly go for general release
Please give any and all feedback you can!
2024-01-04 14:45:57 +0000 UTC
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Learn your ass about nuclear weapons development after the Second World War in a script as long as two Oppenheimers!!
2024-01-04 14:42:48 +0000 UTC
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Soup!? I thought you were deeeaaaddd!?
Sorry for the long hiatus! It's been a while, hasn't it? My job-job has been a lot recently because job-job is going through a major restructure ATM. But that seems to be winding down, and I'm no longer facing imminent unemployment, so that's good
My theme for the new year is "Routine" and part of that routine is gonna be making more time for YouTube, and actually creating those structures in my life. This is important to me, and getting b...
2024-01-04 14:37:28 +0000 UTC
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Honestly write anything - your Patrons will love it
Good advice, Patreon. Good advice
This is a reasonably polished - if not perfect - form of the first hour and twenty minutes of the next video. Any notes, comments, things you spot are (as always) very much appreciated
See you with the final thing very soon, I hope!!
Big love,
Soup
2023-09-19 15:01:16 +0000 UTC
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THE FIRST HOUR IS NOW PROD READY!!!!
God, I hope this was worth the wait. Any notes about the video: corrections, counter arguments, general thoughts, lemme know! This is "done" in the sense it could go out into the world. But it's not "done" in the sense of it being the perfect little gem I want it to be
The rest of the video will be out (hopefully) soon!
2023-07-11 08:12:23 +0000 UTC
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Hey! Here's the first draft of the script of Part 1 of a project which is gonna be an absolute fucking behemoth of an undertaking!!! This runs to 70 pages, and it's not even done!!! Don't say I don't ever do nothin for ya!
2023-07-01 10:42:19 +0000 UTC
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Hey there my lovely lovely Patreons! Its just a regular bowl fulla soup here!
Its that time of month! Time... for UPDATES!
But first - why is everything taking so long?
Truth is, Souperinos, its been a tough few months. Now that I'm nearing the completion of the first part of the SHAR video (which will be available to £3+ Patreons soon enough), I've noticed that nothing in it really suggests it should have taken this long. In fact, given the age of the g...
2023-07-01 10:33:07 +0000 UTC
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As mentioned in the monthly (well, every 2 monthly) updates, I wanted to get an idea ahead of time about what video people would like to see when the SHAR video is done and dusted
Because I'm a big believer in democracy, as always we'll be running an Approval Voting system. If they all sound good, vote for all of them! If some sound better than others, vote for those! Vote once! Don't vote! IT'S UP TO YOU!
Poll closes end of May, and I can start more earnest pre-production on w...
2023-05-23 10:55:02 +0000 UTC
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Hello, my squishy fellow humans!
I'm so sorry for post delays! I got logged out of Patreon and they weren't sending out 2FA codes. It took forever to actually get somewhere with their user support people and and I've only just gotten access to my account. So I'm gonna roll the updates for last month and this month into one post!
£10 Patreons
If you're a new £10 Patreon - hello!! I should have gotten in touch with you about what custom drawings you...
2023-05-22 09:32:24 +0000 UTC
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How do you do, my fellow enjoyers of Burnout: Paradise!? Its that time of the month! That time to answer the question "Hey where the Hell did Soup go?" with an update list to prove I'm not dead! Take that, reality!
This is gonna be a shorter update than usual - its been a real "My real life job is kicking my ass and my personal life has fallen on the backburner" kinda few months. But progress is a-happening!
Moop Doodles!
If you're a new £10+ Patreon, ...
2023-04-01 18:13:02 +0000 UTC
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Hey hey, kids! Long time no speak!
Sorry for the hiatus. I owe you guys a lot of updates. I wish I could say I was being industrious, and I guess to an extent I can say that. But I've not been as industrious as I'd like. I had the revelation at my job-job that I was burned out. It's hard coding a whole new service and tech ecosystem and then coming home and doing work for YouTube alongside having a social life, working out, and being a good son.
I might for my own sake have to t...
2023-01-31 16:57:43 +0000 UTC
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Good evening, fellow inhabitors of Greenwich Mean Time (Unless you live somewhere else on the flat Earth, in which case your watch is running slow/fast)
This is a rough draft of a script which got away from me and spiraled wildly out of control in either a really good way, or into a nightmarish disaster. And I need you to be the judge of that! Various rabbit holes and ramblings of some guy on the Internet include, but are not limited to:
1. The Principal and the Pauper is fine,...
2022-11-20 21:57:47 +0000 UTC
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Alright, you Fockers, let's CONGA!
If I'm not mistaken my calendar says it's Friday, and it's the end of the month! That means it's time for the monthly end of month update!! Oh joy!
Been taking a bit of a break from YT stuff post Helen Keller. I wish it was more of a break break, but I have work obligations to my actual job and it doesn't help things that one of the Devs dusnae fucking work. But the content machine still churneth
FIRST ORDER OF BIMSNESS:
2022-10-28 14:06:31 +0000 UTC
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Connoisseurs of the slop I make for YouTube!!!
I's time for the monthly end of month update!! Oh joy!
It's been great to finally have the Helen Keller video out in the world, and it's doing okay from a numbers perspective! Maybe now people will stop saying it on the Koko video, and maybe more people will use the Ground News app - it's good! You should get it! Especially through the link https://ground.news/soup
2022-09-30 11:27:57 +0000 UTC
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I know, I know. I need to leave well enough alone. But when the anxiety about the Helen Keller video subsides, it'll be time to make a new one!!
I think its best that I pivot away from serious, research heavy content for a while. Mentally, emotionally, and also I need to be a better educator. Think its worth doing some introspection on what sort of educational content, when I make it, I decide to focus on.
So let's do some fun opinion pieces on stuff I like or dislike or just ...
2022-09-23 17:17:21 +0000 UTC
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ITS DONE!! ITS FINALLY HERE!! THANK GOD!! I NEVER HAVE TO MAKE THIS AGAIN!
So based on contractual changes with the sponsor I needed to get the video done by the 23rd of September - which I've managed to do thanks to an unexpected bank holiday! (Big thanks to Liz for taking one for the team!)
There's a few issues in this video - 3 missing sound effects, some laggy footage from the Miracle Worker at 27:05 and 1:18:31 because the video I bought was annoying to snip, and there's a...
2022-09-21 16:40:13 +0000 UTC
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✨ Hi liars! ✨
Here it is, gang! The *INCREDIBLY* rough cut version of the Helen Keller video! We're so close! The albatross around my neck is lifting! I'll be free soon!
You know the drill at this point - I'm looking for feedback before I add on the last few parts and start adding finishing touches. I know some stuff is missing already, like footage and sound effects and references. I'm more looking for the following:
There's a disclaimer at the start written after r...
2022-09-03 21:34:50 +0000 UTC
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Hello, nerds!!
It's slightly late but my tummy is grumbling! The content is churning! It's time for a steaming hot geyser of updates gushing out the pipehole!!
Next Video Progress:
The HK video has had a surprisingly large amount of progress. I'm well ahead of the 31st October deadline set with the sponsor, so you can expect a first draft release in early September, and a minimum loveable product end of September/October time!!
It's had a few major c...
2022-08-27 10:14:53 +0000 UTC
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Bonjour, Mon Coeurs!
It's the last Friday of the Month! And that means it's time for another piping hot plate of updates!
Next Video Progress:
The Helen Keller video is proceeding in earnest. I've agreed to be sponsored by Ground News, and in the agreement contract the video needs to be finished by October 31st. I'm aiming to get it done a lot sooner than this, but I actually have a firm deadline for the video now! That's exciting!
It's undergone a fe...
2022-07-29 11:02:38 +0000 UTC
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Hello my sweet Summer children!
Time for a bit of unprompted honesty: I've been feeling emotionally drained the past few weeks. I wouldn't call it burnout. Ennui feels a bit too wanky a term but it's the best one I have. So ennui it is.
I think it's being stuck indoors all day when it's sunny and warm out and not seeing friends or doing social things. Or maybe it's because I'll never be as cool as Mick Lynch. Who knows?
There's simultaneously an overload of thin...
2022-06-24 17:50:01 +0000 UTC
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Hey Hey, my lovelies!
I've decided to pull something out of the archives today - the distant past of 2020!
This was one of the first videos I made; and it was a footnote for a series that was never released because it was 5 hours long, boring and generally rambly. I revisited this video when I was looking at some of the comments on my Chernobyl video and was surprised how much I stood by what I said -- to the point I plagarised the end of it for my actual Chernobyl video!
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2022-06-20 14:09:09 +0000 UTC
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Hello, all!
So I know I promised a script draft earlier, and I'm sorry for the delay. It's undergone a fair few revisions after passing it to experts to look at, and I've made structural changes to help improve the overall flow.
But - slightly late - here is legendary draft #3! Feel free to read it through and give notes/critiques/praise. In fact please read through it to give notes/critiques/praise. If its all okay can get it recorded this week!
I've also ...
2022-06-08 17:52:23 +0000 UTC
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Howdy howdy, my lil rabble rousers!
I wanted to start doing end of month updates so I can keep you abreast of whats going on - things like video progress, bonus stuff, general changes. So here's the first of what will hopefully become a monthly thing!
Next Video Progress:
So the upcoming video on Helen Keller and the ableist conspiracy theory surrounding her is well under way. The script has expanded from the first draft following chats with experts...
2022-05-27 09:25:15 +0000 UTC
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Hey gang! This came fast - Just like me!
Turns out I didn't have all that much to say about La Palma and Cumbre Vieja potentially erupting and destroying the US East Coast. That's because the body of literature looking at it is pretty deadset against the conclusions made in the Ward & Day paper that put this idea into the collective conscience back in 2001
Sorry in advance for subpar audio on this one. I use Nvidia RTX to help reduce background noise as recording and its produ...
2022-05-13 11:35:08 +0000 UTC
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Good morning, starshine! The Earth says Hello!
Our Benefactors have voted on a new topic that'll become a video on the main channel!
It's going into (and debunking) the ableist conspiracy theory that Helen Keller was a Fraud (she wasn't. It's ableism all the way down). I've been collecting notes on the topic since the Koko video and the first draft of the script is more or less done. Give it a read and a critique - I'd like to get the length of it down and I need to pa...
2022-05-08 09:31:51 +0000 UTC
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It seems as if you only just voted. You've voted on a great deal in a small time span. You've voted so much, in fact, that I've some interesting offers for you to vote on.
Ordinarily, I wouldn't contemplate them... but these are parts of your Tier perks
Rather than offer you the i l l u s i o n of free choice, I will take the liberty of giving you three options to
choooose
from... if and when Soup deci...
2022-04-29 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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