Still in the woods
Suffice to say I am not doing well at all - at anything.
However, a project I have given myself is to archive the entirety of Carl Benjamin's YouTube output under all the various "Sargon" branded channels, because he's threatening to yeet it in its entirety. While I could go off on a whole tangential rant about how that's effectively doing a Khmer Rouge-style "Year Zero" on himself, given that his predictions for how 2020 would turn out have all gone spectacularly wrong, I won't - all I'll moan about is how much food for thought is about to be thrown in the bin, including a hell of a lot I've linked to before. With over 3,000 videos to get through - and I'm just over half way - I've had to resort to some "background noise" to break the tedium, and I chose... Big Clive's Saturday Night live streams, usually around three hours at a time of him rambling about what his fans post on the chat stream. He tends to avoid politics, because he doesn't care much for any parties.
Something came up on the "Fifty milliPaul Flux-stream" first streamed a couple of weeks ago, and it's worth watching. The relevant section starts at 1:24:18 - 1:30:45.
Clive, I have to admire your optimism, because it's in extremely short supply over here.
On a marginally less morbid note, in the following stream Clive addressed one of the most important points in the Culture War: why has he taken to putting "soy face" thumbnails on his "Will is Carbonate?" videos? Fortunately, the evidence is there that he thinks it's utterly ridiculous, but he found that doing so vastly increases the number of views on that video. He had four times as many views on the carbonated Jägermeister video, with a "soy face" thumbnail, than he did for the carbonated Bailey's video, which didn't have it.
The absolute fuckin' state of it.
However, a project I have given myself is to archive the entirety of Carl Benjamin's YouTube output under all the various "Sargon" branded channels, because he's threatening to yeet it in its entirety. While I could go off on a whole tangential rant about how that's effectively doing a Khmer Rouge-style "Year Zero" on himself, given that his predictions for how 2020 would turn out have all gone spectacularly wrong, I won't - all I'll moan about is how much food for thought is about to be thrown in the bin, including a hell of a lot I've linked to before. With over 3,000 videos to get through - and I'm just over half way - I've had to resort to some "background noise" to break the tedium, and I chose... Big Clive's Saturday Night live streams, usually around three hours at a time of him rambling about what his fans post on the chat stream. He tends to avoid politics, because he doesn't care much for any parties.
Something came up on the "Fifty milliPaul Flux-stream" first streamed a couple of weeks ago, and it's worth watching. The relevant section starts at 1:24:18 - 1:30:45.
Click to viewClive, I have to admire your optimism, because it's in extremely short supply over here.
On a marginally less morbid note, in the following stream Clive addressed one of the most important points in the Culture War: why has he taken to putting "soy face" thumbnails on his "Will is Carbonate?" videos? Fortunately, the evidence is there that he thinks it's utterly ridiculous, but he found that doing so vastly increases the number of views on that video. He had four times as many views on the carbonated Jägermeister video, with a "soy face" thumbnail, than he did for the carbonated Bailey's video, which didn't have it.
The absolute fuckin' state of it.