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quantifica july

Hey team. Life has been very LIFE this month, but we carry on. The numbers are gonna paint one story, but the text will paint another, so read on if you want!

DABBLES

I have spent fully half of July out of state, and a good chunk of it out of the country, so the work has been varied and hard to track. But it's also been interesting and very promising! I'll run you through it:

Currently, I'm working on four different videos and just kind of picking which I'll...

quantifica june

Hey team! This one is a mixed bag, but a mixed bag is an improvement on two months of bummers!

MANA

Here we have the full stats on my "quickie weekend video" that took over two months and is bombing in views! I'ma confess: I have regrets, but I like the video, and I'm glad I made it. Wish it had gone faster! But it's a balm to just do something silly, and, when I was able to get myself to work, I was glad the work was fun.

Recording was more wo...

pre-update

Hey team! This month's update will be coming mid-month, as I am out of the country til the 13th. Talk soon!

"smart music" actually public this time

this version you can share, woooooo

a mulligan

the version of the video I sent out earlier has been set to private and needs to be redone and relaunched tomorrow. apologies! Nebula had offered to give feedback on the sponsor read because the way I've been doing them has not been what they've seen drives traffic, but I went on autopilot and just wrote/edited/released on myself. we caught it quickly and they're giving me feedback, so I will redo the sponsor read and relaunch the video tomorrow.

the version I sent you a little while ba...

"Smart Music" is public and ready to be seen!

hi hi hi hi hi the video is now public, it is sponsored, it is EXTREMELY demonetized, and I have no idea how well it's gonna perform. but it's done! go watch, go share, go live the magic again. <3 <3 <3

pick the next Video Game Tasting Menu

hey team! the next Tasting Menu video is forthcoming - sorry for the delay, it's been a rough few months - and I'm gearing up to do my next round of games. I have randomly selected FOUR Tasting Menus and am letting you vote on which one I do this month. you are only being given the name of the menu, not the games that will be on it, muahaha.

(for those that need a refresher: I have taken 69 unplayed games from my backlog and arranged them into Tasting Menus - collections of 4 games rela...

quantifica may

Hey team. Last month I said "this one's a bit less fun." Wish I could say this month is different.

MANA

This does not track the entirety of List of Songs that Signify "Smart Music" as the video is not technically done yet. There are a few revisions to make - a bit of audio leveling, a version of Spiegel im Spiegel that won't trip the copyright bots (it's the ONLY "Smart Music" ...

Early Access: List of Songs that Represent "Smart Music"

hey team! sorry for the quietude of late. this silly little project that was gonna be a weekend lark took way, way longer than expected, and it's only partly because everything is more work than I expect! my life is exploding of late and the doing of things has been a struggle.

but! here is early access to this absolutely ridiculous thing I've been making. there will be minor tweaks before it goes public, and I'll be pitching it to Nebula for sponsorship presently, so it c...

partial rough cut of very silly video (feedback desired!)

hey weirdos, this is an odd thing I'm working on:

List of Songs that Represent "Smart Music" Ranked From Most to Least Appropriate to Put in a Video Essay

this edit is only the main body of the video. it's missing the intro (which explains why the rankings are in a seemingly random order... sort of) and the conclusion (which gives a LITTLE more context for the mechanics of the list, but not much).

this is probably the weirdest video I've ever made, so I am soliciting your in...

quantifica april

Hey team. This one's a bit less fun.

BURNOUT

There was no release this month, and work was sporadic and scattershot. Got another cold, had a lot of travel, and dealt with burnout from the Cornetto video. Having a bit of the Doing Too Much, but don't have anything I can reasonably stop doing, so I'm going through my enormous list of Things I Have Going On and trying, instead, to optimize. Can't work less, time to work smarter.

This...

quantifica overhaul

hey team,

have decided to forego the video portion of quantifica. 1. I liked the idea of doing them as youtube shorts in case I ever made them public, but on a phone the text gets hard to read and shorts puts too much crap on the screen to see all the data, 2. doing the video component felt more time than it was worth, and 3. it no longer sparked joy.

so I'ma do the media consumption portion of quantifica in the same image series I post the financials. here are this month's media ...

tasting menu rundown: nextfest demos

here's February's tasting menu - no wonder it took til April to come out, it's 2.5x as large as the last one! went with notes instead of a script this time, and filmed from my laptop camera instead of my phone so it wouldn't try to refocus every time I turned my head. I'm fifty-fifty on how it looks. hard to say whether the looser writing was beneficial; I saved time in the scripting but spent more time in the talking, which means more time in the editing. hard to judge when it's a longer vid...

quantifica march (part 1)

Hey team! April comes for us all. Let's look at the numbers.

MANA

This is the breakdown for the entirety of Everyone But Me Is Wrong About The Cornetto Trilogy, including the work done last month. I'ma be honest: I did not go about this one wisely. Editing and Illustration fall under the same wedge of the pie chart because I was doing them in tandem. Which I am not supposed to do!!! For ...

video blocked in Canada, so here's a mirror on Vimeo of the Nebula version

disputing the copyright claim, but I gotchu in the meantime

Early Access: Everyone But Me Is Wrong About The Cornetto Trilogy

hey team!

this early access vid is not as early as usual - it's Nebula Sponsored and today is my release deadline, but I had to spend yesterday making edit after edit to finally get one YouTube didn't slap with a worldwide block. this is still ad-free and does not have the sponsor read I'm shooting/incorporating today, but I apologize for only giving you a few hours' preferential treatment. you'll get the next one proper-early!

quantifica february (part 2)

this month's tasting menu forthcoming <3

quantifica february (part 1)

Hey team! Happy March! Let's crunch-a da numbers.

MANA
There was no release this month, which is (understandably) less than I wanted. I'm working on a video on Edgar Wright's Cornetto Trilogy, and, despite having written a first draft literal years ago, I got stuck in the writing. Finally pushed through the block and got a draft workable enough to start editing, but not in time to get it out before the end of the month. Nebula has agreed to sponsor ...

Bonus Video: Good Scansion (PPT Party)

Hey team!

For my birthday last month, I threw a PowerPoint Party. I had friends give 10-to-15-minute presentations on a niche topic of their interest: I got presentations on Top 5 Gayest Team Sports, Penguins of the Falkland Islands, Pro Wrestlers as Watercolor Paper, and A Crash Course on Modern Solar Energy.

This is a (semi-faithful) recreation of the keynote address that I gave on poetic meter.

WARNING: PARTS OF THIS MAY BE CRINGE.

[note: this version is slightly di...

tasting menu rundown: look, I can explain

wasn't sure what I was gonna do with the tasting menus as I made them. still not! but I wrote up some notes, and then I filmed them cuz the person who chose the menu was curious about them. so I made a video, and now I'm sharing it with you! gonna try doing this monthly-ish, but no promises. aiming for a NextFest rundown this month, but, as always: we'll see.

this will probably go public on Innuendo Twodios at some point, but, for now: you're the first people to see it other than Aida. ...

quantifica january (part 2)

regarding ludicrous systems of media consumption

POLL: Classic Noir Bingo?

Hey team! A question for you:

If I were to start Classic Noir Bingo as a patron-only activity (for, say, the $5-and-up tiers), would you participate? There would be (non-monetary) prizes!

quantifica: january

Hey team! This is quantifica, my new, monthly number-crunch. There will be another component coming in a day or two. For now: let's look at the stats.

MANAHOURS

This month I released The Reverse Gish Gallop. Production-wise, the illustrations took the lion's share of the hours (as is common for Alt-Right Playbook vids), but a comparatively smaller share of the mana, b...

Early Access: The Reverse Gish Gallop

new vid! this will go public in a day or two, but here it is for you and Nebula. :D

went a little overboard on the effects with this one. they were fun to make! but definitely slowed things down and required a slight crunch to get it online before February. might restrict myself to "one new effect per video" going forward or something.

January Update [VIDEO]

this video is just for all of you, not for the General Public. looking it over, I have caught a graphical mistake and a part where I misspoke, saying a film critic WRITES movies rather than WATCHES them. but, video done! not redoing it!

2024 is gonna be a real one, y'all. :)

transcript for folks who want such things:

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What’s up team, two weeks ago I turned 40. That’s a thing that happened. Nobody stopped me! And my first video essay turns 10 in June, so I have b...

The Alt-Right Playbook: Didoing

Hey team! Here's the new vid. It's a bit expanded from when I shared the script previously; had a few points I thought worth going into now that it's not part of a lightning round. Had fun with this one! It'll go public in a few days. Enjoy!

October/November Update: Allow Me To Affect You, Seasonally

Hey team! I hope all who celebrate have had a happy Fall of feasting with compatriots and defacing statues of Christopher Columbus!

Postmortem

Missed last month's update, mostly because I released a video riiiiiight around the time I would've posted one. Negging and Love-Bombing has done... okay! Its numbers are modest compared with the 2023-12-02 01:19:50 +0000 UTC View Post

Early Access: Negging and Love-Bombing

'sup NERDS! nbd but here's the next miniature Alt-Right Playbook, for your eyes only. It'll go up on Nebula today or tomorrow. I'm traveling this weekend and would rather not be monitoring video metrics while I'm away, so it may not go public til Monday, with just enough time to boost the Patreon numbers before November. For now, this is just yours and mine.

-I

September Update: Mana Points

Hey team.

I Tried Something Last Month

One of the issues I've been struggling with (surprising no one) is overcommitment. I don't just mean professionally, but across all aspects of my life. It's the cocktail of ADHD symptoms: 1) my history with hyperfocus makes me aware of how much I can accomplish when I "hit my groove" and I assume I can operate at that level on comman...

July/August Update: The Iron-to-Fire Ratio

Hey team,

Sorry to have missed July's update, I was holding off because I felt on the verge of having something to announce for the entire month of August, but, now, here I am, with nothing for you but an apology. Sorry!

A Truly Unreasonable Number of Irons

Here is a mostly-complete list of the things I could credibly call "in the works":

The Alt-Right Playbook
The series of shorts beginning with The Slow Breakup and You Can't Get Snake...