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Channel Update #47 (Jun)

Hey, this update is a little late and will be a little short.

I’m currently deep in the next video, which will be the romance in games video I’ve mentioned before. It’s turned out to be quite a big project - lots of research, lots of game playing, and a long video (3 hours+) - and it should be finished in about 2 weeks.

After this I will need to take a bit of a break but I think the next video might end up being ‘the entire history of jrgps’, wh...

Channel Update #46 (May)

Hello,

The Baldur’s Gate video is deep in production and should be finished in about a week. It’s actually been rather time consuming just because of the amount of game playing involved. I’ve done two playthroughs of BG3, plus one of 1 and 2, which adds up (to about 350 hours). It also doesn’t help that I started back in January, which is long enough ago for me to start forgetting things, like where in my great mass of recorded footage certain things happened. But o...

Channel Update #45 (Apr)

I’ll keep this update short.

There is a new video out. It’s not Baldur’s Gate. It might not be what a lot of people want. It is very political. And I’m sorry to anyone who doesn’t want this video. But I felt like I had to do this.

I’m not too sure what else to say really. I might make a longer update in a few days if I do have more to say, or I might just make next month’s update early. I’m pretty tired to be honest. This video was a lot of work. Lots of res...

Channel Update #44 (Mar)

This is a positive if unexciting update.

The history of rpgs video took a little longer than expected, mostly because it’s the type of video that’s time consuming to write and edit. As for the end result… it’s okay. I don’t actually think this is one of my best videos but there isn’t anything that I think is particularly wrong with it either. I think maybe I’m just comparing it to the MMO history video and the Entire history of games video, both of which I rea...

Channel Update #43 – the big one

Hello,

I hope everyone’s year is off to a good start. This is an update about future videos and my plans for 2024, but as always when I make an update like this, keep in mind that plans do change.

Before that though I will say that the last video has produced an… interesting range of responses. Some things said in response are not true, and aren’t exactly difficult to prove or verify, but mostly I haven’t been paying too much attention to it all. I have tried to take what ...

Channel Update #42?

This is a short but important update.

A new video should be going up tomorrow that is about a more serious topic than usual. It focuses on a gaming industry related issue and is quite critical of two specific youtubers. Anyway the video should speak for itself, so I won’t talk about it further, but this update is to say two things:

1. I’m not including any names in the credits because the video is more controversial than usual and I don’t want to risk anyone being unhappy wi...

Channel Update #41 (Dec)

Season’s greetings everyone, I hope you’re all well.

This is just a short update to say that a longer update is coming soon where I’ll do a full year review of NeverKnowsBest in 2023.

There is a new video though. It took far longer than I expected or wanted but I’m reasonably happy with the end result. It’s also been well received on YouTube (although it’s still early days). But any success on YouTube is appreciated because I didn’t think this was a topic/...

Channel Update #40 (Nov)

Hello,

I have returned from the land of the rising sun but I have not brought a new video with me. Anyway, the trip was good but it’s the new video part I am going to talk about today. As of writing this I am in video limbo so to speak, so I thought this might be a good time to give an update while I walk you through my current thought process. To summarize however: I’m not sure what the next video will be but I’m hoping to decide between four different options in the next day or ...

Channel Update #39 (Sep/Oct)

Another month, another video… which is something I haven’t been able to say for a while. Don’t get used to it though as I’m about to go to Japan for a little over 2 weeks, in what is the first real holiday I’ll have been on since starting this youtube channel. So that should be nice, and it’s overdue, but it will also mean that whatever the next video is won’t be especially quick as I won’t start it until November. Still at least there is a video finished before I leave and th...

Channel Update #38 (Aug)

Hi,

The Final Fantasy video is done. It’s uploading as I write this but it will be live by the time this post is up and… yeah, it sure took a long time. Sorry if anyone was waiting and expecting it to be finished sooner. I was expecting it to be finished sooner. I don’t really know how this happened, which is strange because I was not only there every step of the way, but I was also the one making all decisions. Still I started back in early June (at a time when the second channel...

Channel Update #37 (July)

Hello, the next video is a full series retrospective on Final Fantasy. I wasn’t going to announce it before finishing it, but it’s taking longer than I thought and I don’t want to let the month end with no new video without saying what I’m actually working on.

Anyway I know I’ve talked about this video a lot in the past, usually in the context of not making it, but after all the problems with the second channel and demonization etc. I just felt really frustrated and...

Exploring the weird world of Adult Video Games

The deleted video.
I'm not too sure what the video quality is like on Patreon but at least it's an option. This is set to public as well, so can be shared with non patrons.

Channel Update #36 (June)

Hi,

This might be a bit of a long update but I’ll break things up.

1. The situation on youtube (this is copy and pasted from the youtube community post I’ve just made):

The second channel lives again - https://www.youtube.com/@KnowsBestNever

I think it was the big response on twitter that ultimately did the job, so thank you to everyone who helped out.

The Adult Games v...

Channel Update #35 (May)

Hello monthly update time i.e. new video and bad news time. I’ll break things into different topics.

1. The second channel was deleted out of the blue (there’s a little more info in a recent youtube community post if you want to check). I’m still not sure why this happened. The first appeal was quickly rejected but I’m still hoping I can get something done about it. I’ll go through the manual contacting support process and if they can’t help I’ll ask them to pas...

Channel Update #34 (Apr)

Hello,

Just a quick update I guess. There’s a new video on the main channel, which is the first of four videos on gaming history and will be about 6 hours long in total. This is a topic I’ve thought about covering for a while and it seemed a good time. I particularly wanted to connect the past with the present, as most attempts at covering the topic tend to only focus on early history, or take an incredibly positive and optimistic stance on modern stuff, as if the gaming industry is...

Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous Review

I'm working on something but in the mean time I finished Wrath of the Righteous recently (I didn't finish it at release as it's long and I got distracted making videos) and thought I'd make a quick video review. It's unlisted so think of it as patreon exclusive content or something (although I might provide a link for non patreons later, I don't know).

My reasoning for making this video were:

1. People ask me my thoughts on the game sometimes and I feel bad skipping it ...

Should I upload the politics video to the main channel?

I haven't been able to get the age restriction lifted on the latest video. As far as I know it still hasn't had a manual review but I'm not getting anywhere with support. I did try uploading it to the main channel as unlisted though, just to check, and its had no issues. So I'm debating whether to unlist the version up now and just have this video on the main channel. I can even change the one scene that I think may have got it flagged.

Honestly though I'm not sure whether th...

Channel Update #33 (Feb) – a video a long time coming

There’s a new second channel video and I have so much I could say that don’t really know where to start. I guess I’ll try to be methodical.

The video is about politics and the internet… and a little history and philosophy too. When I decided to take a break from the main channel I had an overly idealistic notion of just making videos on anything and everything that felt important to me in accordance with my mood at the time. The issue with that is politics becomes imp...

Channel Update #32 (Jan?) – New Year and new video

Hello,

I hope everyone’s doing well and had an enjoyable holiday. 

There is a new video on the second channel (linked above?). I chose the topic because it felt like a good continuation from the last video and I thought I’d be able to make something quickly, but the subject turned out to have more depth than I realized. So I spent a lot longer researching and making the video than I anticipated although I think it turned out alright. If I were to remake it I’...

Channel Update #30 and #31 and maybe more

I've made a lengthy update hopefully explaining anything that needs to be explained. 

This started as a normal update but then I expanded it and recorded it etc. as I thought better to try to explain everything and make something which can be shared more broadly.

Next video will be gothic, sometime before the end of November and I will probably make another normal update shortly after that.

New video

Hello,

I made a video. It's about AI and it is a little weird. See what you think.

Anyway I'm thinking I will leave it on the second channel and make a community post and maybe a mention at the end of a normal video to promote it.

This was made on a whim after spending a day with the tech and thinking it was interesting. It took me less than 4 days to make, which is incredibly quick by my standards but the video is obviously shorter. Not sure what other...

Channel Update #29 (Aug) – next two videos and not so beyond

Hi, sorry the update is a little late.

Since the Elden Ring video I made some good progress on Gothic, and then switched to working on a Total War Warhammer video. These are the next two planned videos. The Total War video was meant to be more a video for me (as opposed to my boss, the youtube algorithm) as I mostly just wanted an excuse to play some Total War, and the Gothic video is long overdue and needs finishing. I am having a bit of trouble finding the right way to talk about Tota...

Channel Update #28 (July) – elden thing

Arise ye tarnished,

Since finishing the last video I have done a second playthrough of Elden Ring and I’m now onto writing the script. The finished video should go live on Aug 10th although I’m hoping to finish it a little before then to give myself a bit of extra time for the next video, whatever that may be. Work is going okay. I think I’m a little more in the rhythm of things than I was earlier in the year.

As for the last video, it seems the title proved rathe...

Channel Update #27 (Jun) – souls, rings, and second channels

Good evening all,

Since the completion of the last video (here if you missed it https://youtu.be/Rx-Cfh3C8NQ) I have been doing nothing but playing Elden Ring, and through the 120 hours I have spent with that game I have decided that I’d honestly rather make a Dark Souls video than an Elden Ring one. So I played Dark Souls too, which I finished about one hour ago. I’m now going to spend a day each with D...

Channel Update #26 (May) – New Video

There is a new video. You can view it here – https://youtu.be/Rx-Cfh3C8NQ

It’s on a different channel because it’s not video game related and it’s likely that uploading it to my main channel will just hurt future videos as the algorithm tends to punish people for doing anything too different.

That said I personally think the video is good and I hope you will watch it and enjoy it.

Anyway,...

Channel Update #25 (Apr) – future unplans

Hello, it’s me, the ungrateful person you support who complains at you once a month. How’s it going?

I’ve been promising a detailed update on future plans for a while now (since December?) so I guess that’s what I’ll do here. Unfortunately, it does feel like a bad time to give such an update because making videos has been a struggle for a while now and that makes me hesitant to outline upcoming videos incase plans change or I under deliver. Still I’ll give it a go...

Channel Update #24 (Mar) – An update

I don’t usually talk much about my life outside youtube but in the last month I have:

- moved home (I haven’t actually fully moved yet, that will be next weekend, but it feels like I have and I’ve had lots of things to take care of).

- left my job (I have mentioned this before, but I never stopped the job I had before youtube; I just switched to part time and minimal hours. I always figured I’d stop completely one day but covid delayed that as working from home was honestl...

Channel Update #23 (Feb)

Hello everyone,

A quick update to say I am still working on a video and I’m hoping it will be finished soon. I doubt it will be live within a week but hopefully within 2 at least. I did also take two weeks off after the last video back in January, after what had been a very work intensive year, and the video I’m working on has involved quite a lot of work, so that’s why this video is taking a little longer than usual. I’m hopeful people will enjoy the end result though.

Ot...

Channel Update #22 (Jan) – A review of NeverKnowsBest in 2021

Hello, happy New Year, and welcome to the 2nd yearly review of how things are going and other stuff like that.

To start with I have some statistics ready for anyone interested in pure numbers, with a comparison to 2020 as well. https://imgur.com/a/zw3YGEM

In short in 2021 I had 6.6 million views and 70.4k subs, which is a small improvement on 2020, and I would say is very respectable. This time last yea...

Channel Update #21 (Dec)

Just a quick update to say new video soon (within a week). As said previously, it's on Final Fantasy 14 and I'll do a big update shortly after it's up but for now I'm just going to focus on finishing it.