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~ Cherish the past, without forgetting the future ~ Video-essayist who explores our relationship with fiction and each other through analyzing various media, with a focus on JRPGs and 2000s nostalgia.

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Ok so
Good news: finally starting to see some actual progress with the Mario & Luigi Brothership script. I have a concrete idea whre I want tthe video to go and have written at least something for like for most sections.
Bad news: there's still a decent way to go.

26.10.2025 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Keep in mind BiS is in my top 3 Mario RPGs, I can roast it as much as I want to.

26.10.2025 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can't believe the hottest take in this damn Mario RPG video is that BIS is lowkey carried by Bowser and Fawful being as execellently handled as they were, and the game wouldn't be in competition for the title of best Mario RPG if it wasn't for that.

26.10.2025 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I aspire to bee the latter tbh.

I like he game a lot, but I just don't think I have much to add.

11.10.2025 12:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

2,5 to 3 hour still goes but anything longer than that easily takes me out unless its either by a channel that has really good stuff or its ttopic seems interesting enough.

10.10.2025 09:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hot take: the ideal length for a video essay is anywhere between 45 min and two hours long.

10.10.2025 09:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

There are two types of video essayists: you either make a video about Hollow Knight or you have ton o f allusions of Hollow knightt but never make a video about hollow knightt

09.10.2025 13:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Man this was really hard. The first two was extremely easy to figure out given they're pretty much my main inspirations (Skyehoppers especially, probably my favorite videogame analysis youtuber who I admire both structure, content and production wise) but beyond that it was difficult to narrow down.

09.10.2025 12:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One of these things is not like the others.

09.10.2025 12:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Fellow YouTubers, name the four biggest inspirations for your channel (alt text has channel names)

09.10.2025 12:16 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

me: wow, truly nothing actually matters. why bother?

japanese bunny account: mimi-chan is very fat and slept all day. let's do our best, mikata!

me, tearing up: let's do our best, mimi-chan.

03.10.2025 17:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1523    πŸ” 598    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1

Like it kinda went to tthe point where I feltt I wasn't able to make videos unless they fit to the larger "story arc" and "themes" I wanted to do so I just kinda gave up on it.

04.10.2025 08:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Honestly at one point I wanted to have deep lore on my channel (or at the very least having a sort of kayfabe where my video essayistt "sona" was her own character instead of being just an extension of me) but I realized that would kinda pidgeon hole my content so I kinda gave up on that.

04.10.2025 08:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This will mean that sadly I have to postpone the brothership video again πŸ˜”
is just such an ambtious beast of an video and given how much of a struggle it is (not to mention how busy i am) I need to take a break.

29.09.2025 12:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I will def at least trying to play the game(s) to see if I end up enjoying them enough to talk about it.

Heck I may combine it with another game or two to talk about the Larger Thesis I want to bring up in thatt video but hm.

29.09.2025 12:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That said I do think it is feasable given the game(s) I'd cover are relatively short. That said I haven't played either of the games so I wonder if they'd fit my larger point or if I even like or end up having that much to say about them after everything is said and done.

29.09.2025 12:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I do have One Idea I could do for halloween but it'd require me to play a game and while I am not opposed to that I tend to be ratther slow iwth games so. hm.

29.09.2025 12:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I feel opinion pieces are the easiest to make but also I don't like making opinon pieces that much.

I'm the kind of obnoxious video essayist who needs everything to have a PointTM soo.

29.09.2025 11:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

ngl with all the big projects I'm working on I kinda want to do a smaller project to keep both myself and you, dear viewers satisfied while I chip these behemoths.

The question raises though, what?

29.09.2025 11:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Been messing around with the idea of rendering out a full play-through of Kid Icarus Uprising with the portraits and text edited onto the top screen so it can be enjoyed as a single screen experience.
It would take forever and my channel isn't monetized so not really sure tho...

14.09.2025 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The videos TLDR: Im excied for he game it looks interesting and im tired that people are going to bitch on it for the sole fact its set in the same universe as fe3h (as if that wasn't a good thing lol)

12.09.2025 14:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It will come ASAP I am so annoying

12.09.2025 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

yes i plan to make a video on Fortunes Weave ASAP. I know I should upload the web of shadows video first (and I probably will) but you guysss do not understand how excited i am about htis.

12.09.2025 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Anyways h. How about the new . uh nintendo direct uh .

12.09.2025 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Understandable that Steam crashed when there are so many rabid fans of Everybody's Golf

04.09.2025 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 84    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

That said IF I watch this I have to do research by watching a bunch of shows belonging to a genre I'm not exactly a big fan of so, that will be fun.

26.08.2025 12:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Like there have been so many times when I looked at a game, went "oh i bet someone has made a quirky little video essay or retrospective of this thing" only to find out thatt they haven't

26.08.2025 12:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The other problem is once again my fear that someone has already made a retrospective on this series. Wouldn't be surprised since it's such a "video essay retrospective bait" topic but at the same time such topics may not always have videos soo.

26.08.2025 12:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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25.08.2025 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 628    πŸ” 165    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 4

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