Hey all! I have rewritten and re-edited the Still Life video to be under 1 minute so it will upload as a YouTube Short.
The first 10 videos of the tier list are written, the audio is recorded and edited, and Nebula has agreed to sponsor it! So I'll be kicking them out as fast as I can and sending them your way. :D
(July update coming soon.)
2023-08-02 02:05:35 +0000 UTC View Post
hoop de doop de doo, I did another one
2023-07-27 19:35:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey team!
Here is the first video from originally-planned Compendium. I'm sick of working on giant projects that take forever to come out so the Compendium video is going to actually be a series of bite-sized Alt-Right Playbooks after all. This is a touched-up version of The Slow Breakup from - oh sweet jesus - two freaking years ago!!! There are also only a few effects left before You Can't Get Snakes from Chicken Eggs is ready to go, so you ...
2023-07-26 22:57:46 +0000 UTC View PostHey team!
Overdetermined to the Extreme
Earlier today you should have gotten two notifications about the Extremely Overdetermined Adventure Game Tier List: the Viewer's Guide and the first review. This was an experiment for me: in my spare time, here and there, I've been making t...
2023-07-04 03:29:55 +0000 UTC View Post
the first in a series
2023-07-04 00:29:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey team,
The freelance gig is much farther along but continues to take up my time. Per my last few messages, I have been looking to put out something modestly-sized this month, which involved a lot of dabbling in different ideas. As such, I thought I'd share some of the dabbles with you!
Dabble One
I started with the Roguelike Ennui script, because it required the least prep to get started - I didn't have re rewatch any movies or do any research, I have 150...
2023-06-10 19:03:25 +0000 UTC View PostUnrelated to anything else: I came across a Word doc on my laptop today! It's the pitch for a book on the history of the adventure game that I sent to Peregrine Pocketbooks when they were soliciting submissions. I hadn't looked at it since I wrote it, and they informed me back in March that they were passing on the idea. (Fools! Blaggards!) I will probably do something with the idea at some point, but, meantime, you can check it out if you're interested.
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Hey team! Freelance gig is coming along nicely but still has a ways to go. It's been too long since I put something on the channel, so I wanna make something interesting but not too labor intensive. Something CO-VID sized, i.e. not The Alt-Right Playbook or the neo-noir video. So let's try something:
I'ma give you four pitches. They're all ideas I've been considering lately, and I find all of them interesting. The muse is being fickle about which one I wanna tackle next, and I'...
2023-05-24 19:43:07 +0000 UTC View Post1.
Noir that Knows it’s Noir
The short version is this: in 1944 the Allies liberated France, and French cinephiles finally caught up on the last four years of Hollywood pictures the Nazis had embargoed. They saw Citizen Kane for the first time, and How Green was my Valley, and Bambi. Hitchcock’s first American films. Three of the Road to… films starring Bob Hope and Cousin Bing. When the Nazis took France,...
2023-05-09 16:32:49 +0000 UTC View PostHey team,
Freelance Out Into Nothin'
I am still mired in this freelance gig that has, at this point, taken far more time than the pay is worth. I am happy with the work I'm producing and the pace has picked up a lot, so I hope it will be done this month. Life just keeps getting in the way.
The stimulant shortage has so far cost me my meds twice - which, it turns out, does not just mean a return to unmedicated scatterbraininess but withd...
2023-05-09 16:31:23 +0000 UTC View PostHey team,
Sorry for the incredibly tardy update.
In Short
In February I released a video! And a podcast! Then I went to DC for a weekend and came back with COVID. :(
I was feeling mostly recovered a week ago but then went back to the gym prematurely and kicked off a wave of extreme fatigue t...
2023-03-21 19:14:33 +0000 UTC View Post
first ep of my podcast, point b, is up. herein I talk to Magdalen Rose about the creative hustle for thirtysomething YouTubers with late-diagnosis ADHD, and ask her to explain how she wrote a book when I haven't been able to.
2023-02-23 19:33:48 +0000 UTC View Post
the youtube version is public, go tattoo it on the back of someone's head
2023-02-18 18:41:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey team! Here is the finalized, ad-free version of Protagony Two! In defiance of what I said when last we spoke, this is up on Nebula NOW and will go public on YouTube tomorrow (with an ad read at the end). So you're getting it a day earlier than expected!
Hope you enjoy it. :D
-I
2023-02-16 20:27:44 +0000 UTC View PostHey team! Happy February.
The Protagonning
Late update this month because I wanted to get the rough cut of Protagony: Abed up before I wrote you, and then apparently I needed to crash for a week. But here we are! The final edit of the video will go live on Nebula (and to you) on Friday, and then go public on YouTube the following Monday.
This will be the first sponsored video in In...
2023-02-13 01:46:24 +0000 UTC View Post
took a little while but HERE IS THE ROUGH CUT OF PROTAGONY TWO!!!
this needs a little bit of audio mixing, I'm waiting on two lines from my actors, and there's a spot where I know what video I want but haven't been able to film it so far. once all that's square, this'll go up on Nebula and then YouTube.
but, for you: a rough cut!
happy february :D
2023-02-05 23:10:44 +0000 UTC View PostHey team.
Protagony...
Yeah, didn't get it done. I brought all my stuff, and I got some good work done while traveling, but didn't get it over the finish line. One last bit of overpromising for 2022.
I only released a single video this past year. That's not my favorite thing to admit. I'm proud of the video I released, I'm happy to finally have a space to work and the medication that makes it possible again. I wish we had seen more fruit from that tree befor...
2023-01-03 03:12:37 +0000 UTC View PostHey team. Gonna keep this brief!
Protagony
I am very busy at the moment. Have a lot of holiday planning and prepping to do before leaving town to visit family. Have a lot going on in my away-from-keyboard life. Have work on the freelance gig getting backed up before the next milestone. And I'm working on the next Protagony!
I unfortunately do not see myself getting Protagony finished before I leave for California, so I am putting all the relevant files on th...
2022-12-09 19:14:07 +0000 UTC View PostHey team! We're deep into November and I owe you last month's update.
There Shall Be (Free)lancing
The freelance gig I told you about last month has stretched well beyond the original expected timeframe. As I said, it was planned as a crunch and now it is not that, so all in all this is good. But it has meant, for the past month, it's been unclear how long I'm going to be working on this thing, and it's taken a fair bit of my attention.
At my behest, last ni...
2022-11-12 02:42:29 +0000 UTC View PostHey team! There's a bunch more of you than there were last time I did an update. Welcome to the party, pals.
Stats
When I put out This Is Phil Fish, it was considered a viral video for doing 170,000 views in a week; The Cost of Doing Business did 197,000 in a day. It's the biggest openin...
2022-10-03 18:59:16 +0000 UTC View Post
go tell everyone!!!
2022-09-26 18:02:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the final edit, in all it's glory. Full notes and resources in the down there part.
This is not for public consumption yet: I've included my sensitivity reader's name in the end credits but need to official OK from her before hitting publish. Also I'm contractually obligated to release the Nebula version first.
But it's done, and you're the first to see it. :D
2022-09-19 20:27:52 +0000 UTC View Post
The effects-intensive PSA segment is finished. Check it out!
2022-09-16 19:43:33 +0000 UTC View PostHey team! I was doing so good sending you updates on the first and then, this week, I completely forgot that's a thing I do. Welp! Here it is!
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Feels like we've been "so close" for like a month, doesn't it? There is a rough cut. There is a list of tweaks and revisions to make to the visuals. Several are underway. My hope was to have finished cut for Nebula an...
2022-09-09 18:36:18 +0000 UTC View PostHello! Attached are three audio tests, recorded in three different rooms. Trying to figure out what the best option for recording final audio is, as I no longer have a desk in the room I used to record in. If you're interested, listen to the three tests and vote for which one sounds the best!
(the passage I am reading is the first paragraph of "The Distance of the Moon" by Italo Calvino, from the book Comsicomics. please do not ask about Qfwfq's name, I don't think it's meant t...
2022-09-09 18:07:43 +0000 UTC View Postthat's gonna need fixing, so sorry
2022-08-30 02:28:27 +0000 UTC View Post
'sup nerds.
This edit is rough. The audio is recorded with the onboard mic of my headphones - haven't entirely figured out what my mic setup should be in the new working environs, so things are very temp right now. The doops don't currently have their paper cutout border. There's no content warnings or credits. At some point I downloaded firework footage and I don't remember where I was planning to use it?? And there are some stand-in graphics - I don't remember the fo...
2022-08-30 02:26:27 +0000 UTC View Post
I've still got some footage to collect and some photos to take, and I need to put the paper-cutout effect on the doops, and record/edit audio and edit the video to the audio, but... the first run of slides are complete!
2022-08-05 19:27:06 +0000 UTC View Post