Scrap Takes

Adam Curtis filling up hard drives of footage as we speak

Work-from-home has gone too far

Turns out, doing a Movement involves a lot more volunteering to do mundane things and lot less writing essays on Substack about whether restaurants are bourgeois or whatever

I know people who helped with this campaign and other Green stuff.

Crazy thing is how much these movements rely on normal volunteers doing grunt work like hand-delivering leaflets. If you have billionaire backing you can just *pay* to send that stuff out

Was gonna spend the evening making Content but had to unblock a sink instead. The 30s grind never stops 💀

Love to have an economy predicated on this logic

I keep having broad doom-spirals about how to fix games/films/media in general, and I always up end up concluding "damn, like, no-one has any money"

Oh, the grand old duke of york
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Don't Worry Darling is still an all-time "so close, yet so far" of a movie

Yeah I had a crisis for a week of like "damn, I sold out", though tbf there's no decommissioned squats nearby that I would choose to live in 😂

God dammit the Noclip documentaries are making me Feel Emotions about Disco Elysium again

Yep I've been watching XPlay clips mainly, every review is like "[nu metal], [slur], [slur], [racism], 4/5" 😆

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Watching clips from early-2000s gaming TV (reference for a visual gag), and seeing how many r-slurs used to live in the average game review

The Edit has begun

a black and white cartoon of a man holding a sign that says ' sickos ' . ALT: a black and white cartoon of a man holding a sign that says ' sickos ' .

Me when I see analogue media

Script for next video is done. It's a lot less funny and clickable because it's about a game I like. The one after is going to have to be about some real trash 🤔

Velma holding a stylus pen, crawling on the ground looking for something and saying "My video essays! I can't draw without my video essays!". On the ground are two youtube thumbnails of video essays "Line goes up -the problem with NFTs" by Dan Olson and "ROBLOX_OOF.MP3" by hbomberguy

They're a requirement

Games have def started to become live service platforms in themselves rather than individual items.

In 2035 Microsoft will release something that's just called "Game", and every game ever is a self-contained microtransaction that costs 70 MicroBux

Ten years ago: "Yeah the evils of history are more of a structural thing, it's not productive to single out individuals"

Now: "oh so everything bad traces back to this one Satan guy"

YouTube video by mothcub Taylor Swift's Worst Album

New @mothcub.bsky.social vid is a banger. Watched it with my partner yesterday and re-experienced the lyrical trauma of "Actually Romantic"

youtu.be/I50oZwpyg-I?...

Easy to say off the back of this, but: Aranofsky's always been a hack. World's most overrated filmmaker

Bilbo looking at his phone top on bottom is ChatGPT After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it? You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

A wild Hbomb appears!

Been enjoying this game atm. Apparently sifting through an inventory of old books is my jam

[The YOU DIED font but it says ANIMATION NOTICED]

Decent amount of views already! Can't wait to release a second video in another four years

The Under Whelms 2

New video! "The Fascinating Mid-ness of The Outer Worlds 2"

youtu.be/wjfl4fRezwM

Algorithm-boosting engagement appreciated, though I mainly just want people to notice that the animation is 5% slicker than it used to be

history of my youtube channel, basically