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What's the "Cost" of a Desert Bus?

Just a thing I thought about on my way home from Victoria.

[PREVIEW] Call of Duty: Ghosts – Power, Paranoia, and Orbital Tungsten Rods

PAX Panel reminders:

Video premiere is Friday at 6:30pm PT in Firebird (Summit level 5)

Movie Game panel w/ Mikey is Sunday at 5:00pm PT in Blue Dragon (Summit level 5)

Well, everyone, this was a wild month, we're sort of a week behind schedule, but we have arrived at a release candidate.

I can actually tell you that this won't be the finished link, there will be a new link on Friday night or Saturday morning. This is from yester...

Superman and other updates

Big news

PAX West 2025, we have another two panels approved, along with tentative dates and times.

1) Folding Ideas Live: Exclusive Video Premiere + Q&A | Friday, August 29 at 6:30pm

This will be the premiere of the fully scripted, polished, and complete version of Call of Duty: Ghosts - Power, Paranoia, and Orbital Tungsten Rods. I've absorbed all the feedback from the PAX East panel, upgraded it, improved it, and turned it into a finis...

PAX East 2025 Panels and Reflections

So, I gave two talks at PAX East in Boston back at the start of May and I want to gather some of my thoughts about them, how they went, and then just kinda travel log the rest of my PAX experience at the end.

But first the links. Both of them are available on the official PAX YouTube channel (and I've pulled copies just in case that goes down some day).

Call of Duty: Ghosts – Power, Paranoia, and ...

Funday Football: Patreon Video Player Version

This is the exact same as the other post, but in Patreon's video player which some people might find more convenient.

Big Game Bonus Video: Funday Football

Nathan has been getting really into gridiron lately since Aussie Rules is in a slump or something, so we pulled out an oddity that was floating on the very periphery of The Future is a Dead Mall.

Edit: a Patreon-player version is processing and should auto-publish once it's ready. The direct YouTube link is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyG7zwLarrc

Catawampus merch early access

Hey all! Mikey and Teara at Filmjoy have everything set up on their end, and I've finally done the stuff I needed to do on my end, but we're ready to launch!

We have the I Don't Know Dan Olson t-shirts in many sizes (while supplies last) and the Serious Bear Country and Merged Faces stickers (4") that were all available at PAX West last year.

This is a few days early access for Patrons as a thank you. Note that this is not a pre-sale! All this stuff exists! We already made it! I...

Mantracks Work Draft

Hello everyone! Sorry I've been a bit absent, I just couldn't seem to find a smaller video inside my brain that I could actually finish. We've been crunch crunch crunching away at this and it's finally in a watchable state, obviously with lots and lots of production notes and missing things.

We commissioned the fantastic Meg Lloyd (Star Trek: Lower Decks) to do some animation for us that she's still putting the finishing touches on, but you can see a smidge of it in this draft (it's am...

Why It's Rude to Suck at Warcraft LIVE! PAX West 2024

PAX posted this video weeks ago, but I wanted to post them here in the order that I delivered them, which is a weird hang up but it's my page.

Anyway, here's my first solo panel that wasn't just a Q&A (though both Qs and As happen towards the end).

Thanks again everyone who came out to these live shows, they were a lot of fun and very much gave me the energy that I needed to roll right into this next ambitious project.

Stickers and shirts should be up on 2024-10-10 20:27:31 +0000 UTC View Post

XOXO Festival 2024: Envy

Dan's presentation at XOXO Festival 2024


This was an amazing and nerve-wracking experience, but I am so thankful to the Andys for inviting me, I got to see a lot of people I haven't seen in years and years and meet people I've admired for years and years for the first time.
 
On one hand I'm a litt...

Dan and Lady Emily talk about Megalopolis for two hours

Wow Platinum, indeed

A YouTube version if you prefer b/c Patreon's audio player breaks or whatever, or because you want to stealth drop it in the group chat, IDK: https://youtu.be/sYitakMP70E

ICR Discovery Center Vlog

Okay, so

I'm (not-so anymore) freshly back from a trip down to Glen Rose, Tx to film a big chunk of the upcoming video. It was an exhausting week, the heat absolutely took a lot out of us, but we were very lucky with our timing and (heat aside) the weather was great and we were able to get some excellent footage of the tracks at Dinosaur Valley State Park.

We also stopped in at two Young Earth creationist museums while we were in the area, and these are my reflections on those.<...

Merch @ PAX!

We are super excited to let you know that after a mere 14 years on YouTube Folding Ideas finally has actual merch created with intent and we're bringing it to PAX West 2024.

Featuring art from the immensely talented Jackie Musto, Agata Pankowska, and Cla...

Extremely Early Preview + News

Hey everyone, here's an extremely, extremely, extremely early preview of the next video. This is actually just a scratch read, I normally do these audio-only but opted to do it on camera this time and walk through the whole process.

These scratch reads have a couple key functions. First they give a sense of the actual final runtime. I can usually get a pretty accurate guess just from word count, but it sticks better in my head once I can see the timeline visually in my NLE. Second, the...

The Middles of Calgary map

So I tossed this together because comments pointed out that I failed to include a collected map in the video

The Middle of Calgary

The latest (greatest? last?) geography video, after doing the highest and lowest elevations someone asked me to locate the middle.

New video patron preview draft

Hey everybody, how ya doin'?

So, this has been in the works since December, and it's finally getting very very very close to done. There's still some work to do, particularly on the audio, there's one segment that might get re-shot, and and obviously there's the possibility of mistakes of all kinds that all y'all might catch.

I don't want to poison the well with my own thoughts on the project, which are many, or try too hard to shape your expectations, so I'm just going to hand ...

Highest and Lowest Elevations in Calgary, Alberta: Green Edition

Splividend

What a wild week, I haven't even been able to compile a fraction of the good stuff purely because I'm also trying to wrap up this actual long form video that I'm working on.

In short it appeared as though Keith Gill's Twitter account came out of hibernation last week only to spend a week pumping Apes up with a bunch of hype posts. However as time went on the posting coming out of the account grew more and more suspect: Tweets were all pre-scheduled, they were all vague hype post edits o...

Civil War Vlog

I finally saw Civil War and had some thoughts

The Lowest Elevation in Calgary, Alberta - Revision 03: Every Video Is a Video About Itself

The Highest Point in Calgary, Alberta

I can say that it didn't make me verklempt.

What is the worst AVGN episode?

I have my opinions, what are yours?

Harlan Ellison v. Mike Krahulik, 2005

A pointless retrospective on an internet slap fight that happened 20 years ago.

If it had happened today, barring the fact that Harlan is deceased, do you think it would have been made better or worse by ubiquitous smartphones and effortless video hosting?

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What're YOU thinking about?

See, that's funny because "What're you thinking about?" was the default prompt Patreon put in the text box and I'm turning it around on Patreon by asking them and/or you the question that was originally directed at me.

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Next thing's coming along, here's a little Friday fooling around because I spent most of the afternoon mudding drywall and was too brain tired to write after I got home but still felt compelled to make something.

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I'm probably not going to smash the go public button on this one, but I needed to get this out of my system. I might update it further, might take it down, who knows, let's find out.

Reminiscing from the floor about Gary V's beautiful mind

It's truly spectacular

Gear Autobiography

So I've spent an awful lot of time lately thinking about my career, where it's been, where it's going, all that. This is in no small part connected to the time I've spent thinking about James Somerton's equipment combined with a general air of retrospect that seems to be sweeping through YouTubers my age.

On the Somerton thing, I've made public comments about his gear acquisitions and while most people took those in the spirit that they were intended, focusing on the circumstances unde...

About That Idris Elba Gold Documentary

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