JosephAnderson

Why You Should Cancel Your Pledge

Hey everyone, I'll try to keep this brief.

When I started this channel Lili and I just had our first baby. I started making the first Dark Souls video around June or July of 2015 after thinking about doing it for months. After uploading it, the channel quickly became my job, obsession, and passion. I had many reasons for starting the channel and I was lucky to find a lot of success with it.

This isn't a resignation by the way. I know it may read like that after going through tha...

Patreon is paused for February

I will be finished the Witcher video very very soon. 

This has been a tremendous amount of work and for that reason I don't want to rush it out. When it's finished I want to let it sit for a week and then come back to it with refreshed eyes and do a final pass on editing, including recording any changes to lines and some tweaks to used footage. I can already tell you I'm unhappy with parts of the Witcher 2 section but I don't know how I'll feel when I come back to it. Th...

New Baby, Streams, Witcher, Q&As, and Scripts

Hey everyone. As always I'll try to keep this brief and fail miserably.

First the bad news: Q&As are on hold until the same time that streams come back. Right now I am only able to put in 60 hours of work every week and the Q&As are taking up too many of those hours and have become disruptive. This is being made worse by the other problem I will go into detail on below. I've always said that if the Q&As got too much in the way that they would have to go and for no...

January + February 2019 Q&A Answers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hh5ZsP7PVE

Quick post with the link above. This new format is far more time-consuming than I thought it would be. It's taken most of my work time over the past week and I'm hoping that it's because of the rollover questions. If not, I'll have to start drastically shortening my answers. I had to record this in bursts which is fine, but then I had to e...

Ashen Critique Script

Ashen is half Souls-like and half something else. Unexpectedly, it's the something else that I ended up enjoying more, despite being a huge fan of Souls and its clones. I'd put Ashen slightly above The Surge on the list of these types of games. It has some problems, some achievements, and is probably ten dollars too expensive for how much content you're going to get. It's not a small game—it took me just over twenty hours to finish—but that doesn't mean all of those hour...

Q&A Issue + God of War video is out!

I figure all of you saw it already on your sub feeds or on twitter or knew from the previous release date but here it is just in case:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJPOvLvdugw

The Q&A was meant to start last night and continue tonight. We postponed it because, among other reasons, we were exhausted from the video release. But ultimately it wouldn't have mattered because Finn s...

God of War Video final release date

Hi everyone. Short and sweet message here:

All three hours of the video will be available on Thursday at 9 AM EST. I will be doing an announcement tomorrow or the next day on twitter, youtube, and Discord. But I thought it'd be better to let you all know earlier than that.

The video is pretty much done but I want to give myself some breathing room since the last bit I have to do is quite difficult (there's a technical section at the end that needs specific examples)...

God of War - Almost a Masterpiece -- Script and Audio

!!! PLEASE READ ME FIRST !!! 

!!! PLEASE READ ME

God of War Video Update

Hi everyone. I'll keep this quick.

So the video isn't coming out this month. Nothing really bad happened that set me back too much. There was a problem with some of our boxes being shipped. Finn destroyed my laptop which had an updated version of the script on it (my fault for letting him have it, not his). But these only cost me a day or three overall. The big problem was that I just made a poor choice in how I used my work time by streaming Danganronpa. I thought it would only be ...

Move Successful - Here's A Story

Hey everyone. Here's the short version:

The move

Moving TODAY!

Quick update about what's going on:

Everything was approved. We're flying out tonight. We're currently in packing hell. Movers got cancelled last minute so I have to fly back from New Brunswick in a week or two to get everything shipped but that's okay. It has a solution.

There's a chance we'll get turned away at the airport because of our dogs (I have TRIPLE-checked everything with the airline but they were evasive with some answers) but we don't expect this to act...

Update on Things

Hi everyone.

So when I made the last patreon post Lili and I were looking at getting a rental in Toronto. That ended up being a huge waste of time because we refuse to give over our entire identities to whoever the hell could be a landlord. They want everything now! Social Insurance Number, tax returns, access to your bank account history, and the list goes on. Maybe we're the unreasonable ones here but I really don't think so. It's not worth the risk for an overpriced rental.

God of War, Upcoming Videos, Witcher, Moving, and Youtube

That's a big title!

First thing's first: I mentioned before that I was working on another video for this month--on some Super Nintendo games. This has NOT been cancelled but it has been postponed until after the video on God of War. There are some potentially boring details about that below. Feel free to skip them if you don't care.

The video is on Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia, and Terranigma. If your reaction to that is "what the hell are those?" then you understa...

Next video, Early Viewing, Q&A, and Streams

Hey everyone! I'll try to be brief.

First off: the Q&A stream has been postponed until next weekend because of a doctor's appointment for both of our boys. I've updated the Q&A post with the new info and time. It's next Saturday. We thought about pushing it forward to tonight instead but we don't think that'll work. We got short notice for the appointment and would prefer not to do the same to you.

Secondly, there should be a video sometime next week. It's n...

Q&A Session #13! -- ANSWERS January 2018

Here's the YouTube link for the recording. There's a VOD available on twitch if you'd like to watch it with chat but I think YouTube is preferable for most.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxXOHpb_cb8

Answers are linked in a pinned comment under the video. Look for your name and you should be good. The questions are below if anyone is curious to see what was asked and if they'd like ...

Read and Reply for Odyssey Access

EDIT 9:45 PM - I've been doing this for hours now and I have to sleep. I'll finish up those who have sent messages but I won't be around after that until the morning. Sorry if you're missed. We'll have a better system set up next time or the early viewing will be changed. YouTube doesn't make it easy for this to happen with a lot of people unfortunately, so it may be time to retire it. Video will be public in 14 hours.

Someone leaked the video. Not a huge probl...

Super Mario Odyssey - Early Viewing

PLEASE DO NOT SHARE THE LINK WITH ANYONE

PLEASE DO NOT SHARE THE LINK WITH ANYONE

This video goes live for everyone tomorrow at noon. I'm currently streaming so I can't type much more than this. I hope you enjoy. 720p should be available. Make sure you turn to that before starting.

Edit: Someone leaked it. Bound to happen sooner or later. Will make an email list for it soon. Sorry about that.

Update on Super Mario Odyssey

Hello! And Happy Almost-December.

It's been a while since I did an update post. I speak a lot about upcoming stuff on streams and that makes me think the information is already "out there". That's wrong of me. I should still make posts here.

A video on Super Mario Odyssey wasn't meant to be next. After I streamed it, however, I realized I had enough to say to make the video and, thanks entirely to all of your support here on Patreon, I can take the hit wh...

Q&A Session #11 -- ANSWERS November 2017

Hey again. So we're back with an altered version of the streamed answers. We went directly with Oxygen Not Included and, as you'll be able to tell, I gave it very little attention as we went through the questions (the dupes are all about to die at the end). I think it worked out much better. I didn't read the questions ahead of time either so I think that goes doubly so since I was hearing them for the first time as Lili read them aloud.

Here's the link to YouTube this time:

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Hob Critique - It's Like Zelda - Early Viewing

As always, please do not share the link. This video should remain unlisted until some time on the 9th of November. Probably around 11 AM EST. Same time as the stream, I think. So that means about 28 hours from now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcTFJqMGH18

It's still processing and I haven't watched it back on YouTube yet. So if there are any issue...

Q&A Session #10 -- ANSWERS October 2017

Hello. So as you can see this set of answers has a different format.

I explain this in more detail in the linked video below, but essentially even reducing the amount of questions from 3 to 2 wasn't enough for this feature to still be possible. I'm losing way too much time to it. I don't want to cancel it completely, so Lili and I tried something different. We streamed something that I ended up paying little attention to while she read me the questions, and I answered them.

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Early Viewing - Stephen's Sausage Roll

As always, please do not share the below link. Early access should be ongoing until sometime this afternoon. That's a bit less than usual but this video is pointing a lot of people to the Odyssey stream that's happening Friday. The video should have been done sooner but there was a really dumb issue. Thankfully it turned out okay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dsQtBHk0eE

Be warned...

Q&A Session #9 -- ANSWERS September 2017

Hey! So this is late. Everyone knows that. I want

Q&A Delay and Streaming

Hello everyone. Just a quick message explaining two things.

The Q&A isn't finished yet somewhat because of the Cuphead video--more about dealing with the response of it (mostly positive!) than making it. I wanted to be done a day or so after that video but I also started streaming for the first time, which has taken up a decent chunk of my working hours.

Streaming is a priority at the moment, not just because it was a promised pledge goal here on Patreon but als...

Early Viewing - Cuphead, A Modest Tutorial

This is token early access. The only way you're going to be seeing this early is if you're sitting there right now and receive the email.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8ElSWAV1ss

This is a bonus video so I hope you all don't feel slighted. I didn't include credits or a link to patreon for this video either. I think once you watch it you'll understand why it's important ...

Early Viewing - Hollow Knight Critique

As always do not share the link until tomorrow at 9 AM EST.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t1mxoMIDfY

DO NOT SHARE THE LINK UNTIL TOMORROW AT 9 AM EST.

Sorry for the caps. Want to make sure it isn't missed. Or else we'll have to make that big email list. That'll take hours.

I still have some things to finish outside of the video--I want this one to...

Q&A Session #8 -- ANSWERS August 2017

 Lots of questions this time. Let's begin.

Early Viewing - Prey: A Critique of the Mind Game

Well it's been a rough week. At first I thought the problem was the video itself. It was very difficult to put together. I was having trouble every step of the way with finding the right clips. I had to go back in and play the game a bit for some of it--which isn't unusual, but I had to do it a lot more for this one. Somewhere along the way I realized the issue was me, not the video, and I needed to get a proper night's sleep. I think I was sick and didn't realize it until then. After doing that...

Q&A Session #7 -- ANSWERS July 2017

 Like always let's get right to it.

Early Viewing - The Villain of Edith Finch

Hi there. So I'm having internet problems right now and the issue was meant to be fixed on Monday. But the internet miraculously came back on last night and stayed on long enough for me to upload the next video.

The link below is unlisted, which means you have to be given it by someone else to see the video. So please DO NOT SHARE THE LINK. We do this Early Viewing thing this way because no one has "leaked" the video yet. If that changes, I'll have to push the video to public early ...