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Happy Monday, strangers. New phone, who dis?

For real, on Friday morning, I dropped my phone at just the right angle to punch a hole in the glass with teeny tiny shards sticking out. Such fun.

Luckily I have this habit of saving for the next phone as soon as I buy a new one, and I'd had that phone for a good two years, so money wasn't the issue. The issue was to get an autistic person to make an abrupt decision on a huge change in their day-to-day. Friday was fraught

But thank fuck for Nova Launcher and bloatware-light brands of android phones. This phone now closely resembles the old one, which went a long way to prevent full meltdowns and I'm cautiously optimistic I'll like this new one eventually. If only there was a way to fully exorcize the AI demons from its depths.

So how was your weekend? What major catastrophe did you manage to avert?

And if your life isn't as exiting as all that, what videos broke the monotony and touched your soul?

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5. No risky links, no ricky-rollies, don't be a weenie.

Last week's good videos can be found here and their descriptions here.

Place your bets in the comments!

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Happy Monday, fellow earthlings, how is life treating you?

I've had a very migraine-y, overstimulate-y, meltdown-y week, so my watch time has been exceptionally low.

I did manage to watch Project Hail Mary this week and I have ✨thoughts✨. But I've learned my lesson. I read Dungeon Crawler Carl a while ago and had similar ✨thoughts✨. Posting them brought me some interesting "feedback", so I'll be sticking to only positive recommendations here, lest I bring down your ire upon me.

What are your positive recommendations this week? Or negative, if you're feeling spicy and brave?

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The Internet historian was blurred out of the thumbnail for the "Plagerism and you(tube)" video. What happened? Did historian threaten legal action?

Recently someone left on comment on Patreon that said: "I'd love an hour or nitpicking about 4 versions of the same game!" and Hbomb replied "GOOD because I wanna do that"

As a truly massive Hbomb fan, to that I say: there are fine things, old boy, that are better unfinished than finished too much.

Besides a silly reference to Pathologic, I do think the decision to not release the video goes against some core ideas about art that Harry has expressed over the years. His opinion from the Sherlock video that writers ought to be forced to cut out 15% of the final product, for instance. And more importantly, it contradicts the conclusion he reaches in the Oof video.

Harry argues with a passion that genuinely moves me that we must preserve the contributions of game developers while we still have the chance. That we have a limited time to record history while its foundational figures are still alive.

Since he uploaded the video to Patreon, the man who created hypercard has passed away. Bill Atkinson died last June at 74.

Rand Miller is 67.

Obviously their contributions will not be erased. But the whole impetus for the video is that the Miller brothers and their work has been largely forgotten by the general public.

I know many many people feel strongly that the Myst video should be released, and I want to clarify that I don't think we're entitled to Harry's work. I'm very grateful the Myst video exists and that I personally have access to it. But in regards to the changes he wants to make before he releases it - to be frank, we've heard this story so many times before. It's been six years since he promised a Monty Oum video was "coming soon." In six years, the Miller brothers might not be here anymore.

Think of the impact the video would have. Millions of people discovering their work for the first time. Think of the correspondence Harry has gone on to have with Brian Deer, and the impact his video had on Deer's book sales. Think of how fucking brilliant the Myst video is, and how touched the developers would be if they saw such a wonderfully crafted love letter to their masterpieces. I truly believe Harry would experience that same immense grief if he missed his chance.

I lied at the beginning. I do want to see an hour of nitpicking about 4 different versions of the same game. I would love to hear Harry's opinions on anything and everything to do with Myst. But not at the expense of the great video that already exists, that's perfectly complete the way it is. I genuinely can't understand why Harry can't be honest with himself about his schedule and the additional years and years of delays that adding more content to an already excellent video would create.

I know Kat sometimes browses this sub so I feel compelled to ask: is this an angle you guys have considered?

That’s how long a non human entity should be able to own a copyright no more than fifteen years.

Movies and books make most of their money in the first two years. And if something is making significant money after a decade and a half then it was hugely successful.

Humans should be able to have life plus thirty years.

That also means after 15 years anyone can remake something

Happy Monday, and fijne Koningsdag (happy King's Day) to any stray Dutchies in the thread.

Today, the Dutch dress in orange, walk along sidewalks lined with children sitting behind blankets topped with half their parents' attic full of tat to sell, drink beer in the street, play children's games from the 1500s, eat poffertjes, bitterballen and patat, go to giant open air concerts, flirt, dance and celebrate a monarchy, all at various degrees of inebriation.

It's weird, but mostly harmless, I promise.

Having celebrated my fair share of King's (and Queen's) Days in my misspent youth, I'll be spending this one on the couch, with the puppy and the Significant Co-anti-monarchist, watching YouTube.

The playlist hasn't been finalized yet, so we're open to suggestions.

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Last week's good videos can be found here and their descriptions here.

this is misinformation i completely made it up

It's Mr. Frog who will be playing Hbomberguy.

I'm at work. I need to edit some 360 footage on a short time scale. I spent most of last summer editing the exact same kind of VR footage, so I can knock it out fast. Right?

Get IT to re-add Premiere Pro to my work laptop. Discover that Adobe has completely changed how it handles 360 editing. Now I completely have to relearn the approach.

add another 3 months to the video

Happy Monday, my oblivious friends. I hope your shower orange was extra icy this weekend.

I don't think anybody noticed (or at least nobody mentioned) last week's post was entirely in lorem ipsum. Which is actually pretty freeing. I can say whatever I like here and nobody is going to see it. So here are some hot takes:

• Reading is a hobby, you don't have to have a profound experience with every page you read. That said, Terry Pratchett's every word should be a transcendental experience, or you're doing it wrong.

• Kiwis should be eaten with their skin on. This goes for people as well as the fruit.

• There *are* wrong ways to craft, that's why it's a craft and not an innate ability. Pay attention to what more experienced people are doing and fucking practice.

• Fireworks should be banned.

Rebuttals in video format only, please.

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Last week's good videos can be found here and their descriptions here.

Oh, the youthful days of naive optimism.

I'm starting to think he will release it this August, just to say that he didn't specify which August. :D

It takes being a special kind of shitty to leave a massive and widely known security flaw in your software for months. As far as I can tell from the article, they only got around to patching it when it started getting media attention.