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i really enjoy how much my taste in games has been expanding

i pin it on outer wilds, being a game that i had heard nearly nothing about and had nearly no prior knowledge of, and by the end i adored it. i think it made something click in my head, and it made me think of more experiences i wanted, games that were outside my comfort zone in some ways.

most recently i have bought persona 5 royal on sale with the last bit of my steam wallet, a game in a genre that has never really clicked with me, jrpgs. unfortunately i have to wait to play more, but from the short time i played a really loved it. similar situation with other games i've gotten recently. elden ring, baldur's gate 3, hollow knight, what remains of edith finch, games that either are in genres i haven't been comfortable with in the past or games i know almost nothing about. and each time i've played them, i love them more and more (besides me being bad at elden ring and my file stays stuck at margit). my steam deck is in repair right now because of a botched shell swap, but once i get it back, i can't wait to chip away at these games even more

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[outer wilds spoilers]

this is rly just some comic practice bc i miss drawing comics...updating riebeck on random discoveries is one of my favorite little things u can do in outer wilds and i thought this particular chunk of dialogue was rly charming so i drew it all out.

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video about the tony domenico story released recently, watch if you want

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THE FULL ALBUM IS OUT

i'm still learning quite a bit about production, but i think this is probably the most coherent project i've put together. it's short, give it a listen if you get the chance

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woah, new single for my album out now!

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hi hi i released a new single

album coming out 8/16

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i made a video about the steam deck since i got my own. enjoy

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movie called countdown where it depicts how the failures of a city's christmas celebration directly causes the apocolypse

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going in circles

there is one goal i've been trying to reach, and i'd say i've been attempting on and off for a couple months now

as i continue making videos, i continue developing my style and vision i want for how i want my videos to, well, actually look. after watching petscop, i think i know what one thing i want to heavily include in my videos. an ntsc filter. the ntsc filter in petscop looks fucking fantastic, and woah, the shaders are just out there and already existing! i'll just download them!

and now for the hard part that i didn't think would be hard

how do i put this on video

see ideally, i thought there would be some plugin for applying these shaders easily, and there kind of is. it's called isf for motion (i use final cut pro), and supposedly it allows you to put glsl shaders onto apple motion and final cut timelines. however, i never figured out putting the libretro ntsc shader into it, so i gave up.

so now on the windows end, considering i have a desktop

there is a program that fucking does this (kind of). it's called shaderglass, and it lets you apply any libretro shader over your windows desktop. however, it does not allow you to outright render video, or let alone work on mac or let you put into editing software.

i tried some other solutions, but none worked

so now my ideal outcome; make a version of shaderglass (considering it's open source) that i can drop into fcp or davinci or premiere, and have it let me put libretro shaders over video with one layer.

i am not nearly experienced enough at c++ to do this, nor do i have the knowledge to create plugins for editing software

i guess i kind of need some kind of jumping off point, some kind of kickstart to figure out what i need to learn to do any of this. i wish there was more documentation i can easily access and process that surround this stuff, but my findings have come up my dry.

if anybody has any tips or easier ways to do this, let me know please.

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i fucking love this little thing

just got 128gb put in it too

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i've loved shifting my youtube content over to video essays so much

often i have so many things running through my head about a weirdly specific thing, and i can just sit down, ramble at my camera, spend a couple days editing and i make a video that people enjoy somehow.

for instance, i recently got into petscop a lot. i watched nexpo's series, and my mind really fell back down into the rabbit hole of that game. the most i had seen of the game is what pyro covered in his video, so i missed a ton of details. seeing all those details really got my mind spinning, and after watching the series on my own and various other analysis, i really had a lot of ideas i consider to be a part of the story.

i had made my digital circus video, and i wanted to make a shorter video like that again, so i planned out aspects of petscop to talk about and then edit into one video. i expected it to be maybe 15 or 20 minutes, but it ended being over 45 minutes long.

i was worried when this was the case, because my other 40+ minute long video had absolutely flopped, but i believe the momentum from my digital circus video helped a lot. it makes me happy that so many people actually like to see what i made.

i don't plan to make this a job in anyway, but i still love making these videos as a hobby. i love the act of video editing a ton, and being able to edit videos that i make about topics i'm genuinely passionate about is so insanely fun

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"Five words, written on a chalkboard, in the dirty building you inhabit"

in petscop, one of the unanswered questions comes in the form of casket 4. as we know, all of the caskets are censored when they are shown in paul's gameplay in any way, however they are only uncensored when we see marvin look at them in the display room. caskets 1-3 were ones we've seen before this point, and when we see the casket displays, their meanings and forms are pretty clear. however, casket 4 was not seen until this point, and is still entirely unclear what it actually says. the description is also the most cryptic out of the 4 caskets. as shown in a reddit post made by u/erer1243, this same five words texture is shown in the second episode.

it's much clearer than in the casket display, but still not very clear at all.

however, there is enough to go off of, to me at least.

this very well could be a stretch, and not the exact wording, but i believe this to be at least the idea of the five words. the original chalk was in red, so i believe this to be rainer saying this, as the only other time we see red in relation to a character is tool, and that's practically rainer's second line of communication after direct text boxes. why would rainer even bother to say this though? i believe rainer misdirected marvin when it came to the conditions he was developing petscop under, most likely to hide the underlying thesis of the game. this chalkboard confession could come from the day when rainer got marvin to finally petscop, or even after, to clue him into why the game is the way it is, washing away the illusion that he created of a genuine game production studio.

if you have any other ideas or interpretations, please let me know. i'm open to discuss or hear anything else. petscop is a wild beast of a series, and there's so much room for your own thoughts and feelings.

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i really love a specific genre of horror but only if it's done right

horror in video games where it shouldn't be

the best examples i can think of are petscop and EARLY sm64 stuff (the later stuff just became formulaic and oversaturated)

the idea of a game that is meant to be so upbeat and joyful hiding something under the surface or not functioning right and breaking that mood really intrigues me

but i prefer the end of it that keeps it a mystery, that isn't blood coming out a character's eyes, but instead an unfinished area that stayed in the game. a piece of music cutting off and leaving you in silence with nothing but your character's footsteps and thoughts clouding your mind of what possibly could've happened. an area that you were never meant to find that unearths something you were never meant to know

petscop does it so well because of the aspect of unearthing a secret. the way that any details are only given in game and a let's play commentary, the way that this secret area is the most detailed and finished part of the game only because of the developer's madness in solving a family mystery based on his own motivations

early sm64 horror does it well by creating situations that feel real, but are just, off. an error screen, an unfinished area with no music, an anti piracy screen, these work so well to me

i suspect my fascination with all of this to do with my own experience as a child. as many my age, i grew up with video games for most of my childhood. there was a specific experience i had where i was playing wii fit, and i swear the male's voice went deep and almost demonic, and then my wii crashed. i was 3 or 4 when this happen. while i don't doubt that i experienced that, i chalk it up to my overactive imagination finding some connection between my wii crashing and what i was doing at the present moment. no matter what, i can tell that this had a subconcious impact on the way i viewed video games. when i see these horror scenarios, i don't think i subconciously see it as a fantasy scenario, i subconciously see it as something brewing right below the surface with even more to be found, despite how much i logic i see it with

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hi yes i made a video about tadc that i'm really proud of so 👍

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doomscrolling ebay for ipod 5th gen listings

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messing with stuff to make it look bad on purpose is so fun