State of the Union, ish It's probably about time I collected my thoughts on The YouTube Channel And That. Or possibly not, because those thoughts are largely: Aaaaaarrrgh! (Aaaargh!) Aaargh? I'm reaching this point where the increments in technical production quality are becoming less stark from video to video, and so I'm starting to see
The Stupid Reason I'm Now Fed Up With Forza This evening I had some free time and the desire to play a bit of computerised racing, so I fired up... Automobilista 2. It's a game I've neglected because while it has a lot of race series there's not one which ever makes me think, "oh yes, I want to
Another stupid Christmas playlist review It is my firm belief that the Christmas compilation album was perfected in 1963. It is also my belief that when a major streaming platform repeatedly tries to shove a "100 Greatest Christmas Songs Ever" playlist at me from mid-October then I am absolutely bookmarking it for December, because I
Oh sods, it's Wrapped Yes, it is the time of year when Spotify generate an enormous amount of free press and show off the prowess of that engineering team model they told us all to use, by showing everyone on the service an error.
Milestones and that I'm trying to keep up a habit of writing some sort of state of the union whenever I reach a numeric milestone with the channel, even if only as a selfish reminder of my state of mind at the time. So, witness! This is a weird one because I've not
Forza Motorsport is kind of OK I feel like I'm the only person on the Internet who is enjoying the new Forza Motorsport. Well, other than the glaring technical issues. And that point it loaded my Xbox profile, saw I have played nearly every mainline Forza and Horizon game since Forza Motorsport 2, and still made
My old (and new) writing about music Years ago I attempted to write a big ol' blog about the history of chart music. Er... twice. Once on Medium and once again on Ghost. Then I recovered everything from both, and edited into them one blog post for posterity. Up to the end of 1959 was the Ghost
The Long Video Trap I got an interesting graph out of YouTube analytics this week. It's interesting to me because it helped me finally figure out what I've been seeing in my channel metrics for the last few videos. As a creator, you're constantly aware of YouTube's recommendation algorithm. The majority of views will
The Joy of Discovery I've been sparked into writing mode by two things: 1. The issue of people leaving Mastodon because they find it hard to discover things. 2. People on YouTube mentioning that they loved "finding" my channel. These are sort of connected, because there's something those of us who try to bring
My social media burnout I feel like I'm burnt out on social media, or at least that part of it comprising microblogging platforms. It's not just the seemingly endless procession of, "no, it's not here, it's just over the next hill" in which we've gone through everything from discovering Hive were running their entire
"My own thing" and other such people Here's a filthy secret: when I started out one of my main goals was to get to the point I could collaborate with Big Successful YouTubers. Well, let's be more honest about my humble aspirations here - Relatively Large YouTubers Who Seem Like They'd Be Fun To Do Stuff With.
How I got to 1,000 subscribers without having any clue what I'm doing On 11th August 2022 I got the magic email saying that I, Timberwolf, was now a YouTube partner. Meaning, of course, that some time slightly earlier I had passed both the 4,000 public watch hours and 1,000 subscribers milestones. Some people set out to achieve this goal with
Dumb Threads I Started I like saying dumb stuff on social media. Sometimes I make a thread that I think should be preserved for posterity. Here is where I list them, if I can remember.
Why YouTube Sucks If You're Small Have you ever heard of the fox, chicken and corn problem? The gist of it is, you have a YouTube channel and the following types of viewers: * Let's Play viewers will watch any Let's Play video, but won't watch anything which isn't a Let's Play. * Comedic documentary viewers will watch
Behind The Scenes: "Isometric Dreams: The Chris Sawyer Story" This is one of those ones where I feel everything came together just right; perhaps it's that my level of passion for this topic is high, but even a few weeks after recording it I still love the detail, the pop-up jokes that only dedicated spotters will get, and that
Behind The Scenes: "Getting Started With OpenTTD 12.1" This one was somewhere between a nightmare and a rush job. I thought I'd completed editing at 1am on the day it went live, but then realised the finished video was missing a couple of inserts and only managed to set the final render going with less than two hours
Behind The Scenes: "X-Com: The Wilderness Years" Wilderness Years was my test video to see if I could do this kind of more tightly edited documentary style thing. I didn't intend to write Behind The Scenes style articles at first, so this is a hasty bit of doing my homework the night before for anyone who's interested
Science Redux: Station and Track Designs There's quite a bit of OpenTTD Science [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuO1EdT1BRkfnqpUm_rXno6lcgXwbSxMB] and as is the nature of such things, later videos will often improve upon designs featured in earlier ones. And while it's fun testing theories, scrolling through videos trying to find designs gets old fast.
Something I Wrote About HMV In 2018 I read the news today, oh boy! HMV in administration again. It’s another sad notch in the recent history of what was once a cultural totem, but also an unsurprising one. I haven’t been in an HMV for years. Where I have been is on an awful lot
