So my fab costume designer Quill (@quillightful on twitter) has been working hard on this costume, and now that it's coming together I wanted to share the design concept with you, or... half of it anyway ;) there's more coming, but for now enjoy!
You can see the headband in the design, which is going to be part of the costume as well. More updates when the next part of the costume starts coming together, and then I'll give you all another behind-the-scenes peek when it arrives here and ...
2021-03-31 09:55:25 +0000 UTC
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Preamble:
This is the part of the video where we sing superlatives about The Matrix. You know The Matrix is good. It completely changed action cinema worldwide, and it became so ubiquitous that for a decade after its release in 1999 virtually every mid-tier action movie, cartoon, and tv show referenced something from The Matrix at least once. But it's not even just stylistically influential: the red pill/blue pill question made such a...
2021-03-28 23:05:14 +0000 UTC
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Hey all, I'm having a costume made by the wonderful Quill (https://twitter.com/Quillightful ) for my video about Cyberpunk 2077. This is just a closeup of some of the fabric samples, but hopefully I'll have some really cool stuff to show you soon!
2021-03-20 11:36:37 +0000 UTC
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2021-03-03 14:53:46 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to my ongoing series Monster Men where I talk about why we tell monster stories and what they mean. Last time we talked about serial killer fiction, and that topic is pretty heavy, and pretty dark. I actually had several friends pull out of contributing to that video because the subject matter is so grim, and I understand, that’s fair.
So today, we’re going to talk about a much more light-hearted, easy topic - superheroes! My contention is that superhero stories are a ...
2021-03-01 17:20:13 +0000 UTC
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Just to let everyone know that Natalie and I are going to start making games. I am still going to release videos at least once a month, but obviously making video games is a time-intensive project so it will have some (?) effect on the output of video content. Once I have a clearer picture of what the effect will be, I'll post a schedule on here.
Patrons will also be getting early access and behind-the-scenes looks at what we're making, and I'll make sure to include the details of that...
2021-02-06 21:42:09 +0000 UTC
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“I want to be the very best,
Like no one ever was.
To catch them is my real test,
To train them is my cause!
I will travel across the land,
Searching far and wide.
Each Pokemon to understand
The power that's inside!
Pokemon!”
- Pokemon Theme Song
Pokemon Red Version and Pokemon Green Version, the original games in the Pokemon
2021-01-25 17:45:20 +0000 UTC
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2021-01-17 12:29:19 +0000 UTC
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Neoreaction A Basilisk by Elizabeth Sandifer starts with the line "let us assume that we are fucked". This is more or less the approach that Disco Elysium takes to leftism. There aren't easy answers, or if there are answers, easy or not, we don't have them, and sometimes the best thing you can do is just really accurately represent the current dumpster-fire state of things. Sometimes the best we can do is take stock and make sure we know what’s going on around us.
In...
2021-01-11 01:08:42 +0000 UTC
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2020-12-11 14:45:40 +0000 UTC
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Alright now enbies, ladies, gentlemen, let’s get right to it. You’re here to watch me talk about video games, so let’s talk about video games.
In Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy - come on, you knew this was coming - the author begins the story thus “In the middle of the journey of our life, I came to myself, in a dark wood, where the direct way was lost.” It isn’t until much later on that we find out that what he may well have...
2020-12-09 16:39:30 +0000 UTC
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A more theoretical piece, inspired by some discourse I encountered today. Don't think I'll be making this into a video but wanted to put it up here
In Aldous Huxely’s novel Brave New World, the world has adopted Henry Ford’s eugenicist and social control theories and taken them to their logical extreme, creating a sterile, joyless world with a rigid, genetically deterministic caste system - alphas, betas, deltas et cetera. The roles people are born and raised int...
2020-12-07 18:26:59 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone, just wanted to update everybody again now that I have some more solid plans for the next few months.
As some of you may already know, I'm currently writing an analysis of the game Cloudpunk, and that'll be the main new video I'm putting out in December. The Snyder video will be released right at the start of December too, but of course that's been done for a while.
In the mean time, I've been playing a lot of Disco Elysium and I've been so captivated by it that I'v...
2020-11-28 14:06:30 +0000 UTC
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Francisco Goya’s aquatint The Dream of Reason Produces Monsters depicts the artist asleep while various predatory animals gather around him, perhaps in his dreams. The picture illustrates Goya’s fears about society, put simply “the sleep of reason produces monsters”, but it plays with a sim...
2020-11-15 00:55:39 +0000 UTC
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2020-11-01 11:13:53 +0000 UTC
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Preface: The parable of Dick Suckle
2020-10-20 00:02:05 +0000 UTC
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2020-09-25 10:10:16 +0000 UTC
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Hey pals!
So as you know, WITCHERMANIA has almost come to an end, the third part will premiere this Friday 25th and the last part will premiere on October 9th. I'm really happy with how this series came out, I've never made a series like this before, only some two-parter essays, and this was definitely in some ways a test run to see how well I could manage the project of doing something like this. I'm chuffed that it went so relatively smoothly, and the fact it's caused so many of you ...
2020-09-23 18:23:36 +0000 UTC
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Enbies, ladies, gentlemen, witchers and dh’oine!
Let’s talk Geralt and Yennefer. In Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher Saga, a recurring element is that we see how fairy tales are versions of real world stories that have been sanitised and changed to appeal to audiences. We see this a bunch with Yennefer and Geralt who from practically book one are on-again-off-again bitter exes, but dandelion’s ballads sing of their burning, passionate, undyi...
2020-09-19 00:49:40 +0000 UTC
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Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher Saga, released through the 80s and 90s became hugely popular as books in Poland and Eastern Europe, and CD Projekt, a polish game publisher and distributor looking to get into the development industry made the books popular worldwide with their development wing CD Projekt Red creating internationally bestselling games based on them.
CD Projekt Red after a couple of iterations truly achieved their ambitious vision when they adapted ...
2020-09-06 01:54:07 +0000 UTC
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warning - partially NSFW
2020-08-25 13:47:10 +0000 UTC
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This is the first part of the WITCHERMANIA series. Watch this space for the playlist link
2020-08-19 08:13:05 +0000 UTC
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