Hey team! Not a lot to discuss, but here's the skinny:
75%
When I started physical therapy this month, their preliminary assessment told me my leg was at 31% functionality. (This was after a chiropractor visit that had already improved things significantly.) I had my reevaluation this past week and I am up to 75%. That's more than double in under a month! It is ...
2021-05-03 15:52:11 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks,
I have a script finished and recorded.
I also have the audio and all the slides from the talk I gave last week.
What I also have is sciatica and cannot currently sit upright. In fact, I can't deviate much from this position:
I think if I stay like this for the rest of...
2021-03-24 23:18:40 +0000 UTC View PostHey team! Happy February.
Next Things
The current plan is as follows: progress on the next Alt-Right Playbook continues slowly. I'm making headway in my thick, depressing research book and I have several pages of a script I like. Partway through writing it, though, I had a momentary inspiration, and quickly wrote a script for one last CO-VID. A few times in the past...
2021-02-25 20:50:47 +0000 UTC View PostHey team!
I was so excited to get a video online before the end of January that I kind of forgot I was supposed to do an update. Apologies! This being the shortest month of the year, we're only three weeks away from a February update, so I'll keep this brief.
Not Sure About February
There's a decent chance there won't be a video this month. I am attempting to ...
2021-02-08 15:23:36 +0000 UTC View Post
The video is now public! I'll boost it again in the morning, but enjoy!
2021-01-28 04:26:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey team!
Here's a rough cut of the next CO-VID! Hooo, been a minute, right? This script was written back in... September, I think? I've been poking at it ever since but elections, diseases, holidays, and coup attempts got in the way. But we finally have an edit!
I'm out of town most of the rest of the month, so I won't be able to finalize it until next Wednesday. But I think all it...
2021-01-24 01:32:21 +0000 UTC View PostHey team.
Let's Get This Out Of The Way
You'll have noticed I didn't do a video in December. I made a conscious choice that I was going to prioritize enjoying my holiday, and also do work, but only inasmuch as it does not conflict with that enjoyment. I knew there was a risk that the video wouldn't be done, and I'd be apologizing to y'all for the third month in a ro...
2021-01-08 01:24:21 +0000 UTC View PostHey team. Weird month, huh?
Sorry for the lateness of this update. I've been out of quarantine for almost two weeks now, and I'm getting back into the swing of my various obligations, but I'm not moving at my fastest. By this time, my symptoms are pretty much cleared up. My stamina has taken a hit - when I'm active, I run out of steam a lot faster than I did before, but it's improving day...
2020-12-09 03:27:57 +0000 UTC View PostHey team,
I have tested positive for the coronavirus. So far it seems I have a really mild case, and we have good and (largely) affordable healthcare here in Massachusetts, so I am anticipating I will be okay. Provided there isn't a second wave of symptoms headed my way, I seem to already be on the mend. But we've converted my partner's little office room into a quarantine cell and this i...
2020-11-17 02:47:33 +0000 UTC View PostHey team.
A Moment to be Serious
The next video is written. The audio is recorded and edited. The relevant footage is on my computer, and the edit has begun. But it won't be out before November.
I am burnt out. All the tweaks to content, work schedule, and leisure time in the world cannot keep it away forever. The election is in less than a week. COVID cases i...
2020-10-30 20:16:24 +0000 UTC View PostHey team!
Making Robots Go Boom
This month has been eventful, to say the least. First, the semiotics of "cuck" got taken down after YouTube decided it was pornography. Then YouTube put it back up without telling me (but kept it age-restricted). Then 2020-10-02 00:46:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey team! The video is public! You may have noted the version I posted two days ago is down. I realized after uploading that I forgot to put in the intro, and the compression settings looked like butt, and the audio was mixed too loud, so I did a re-export. And here it is!
2020-09-17 13:10:11 +0000 UTC View Post
New CO-VID! I'm talking about video games again. Shooters have been my comfort food of late. This is me at my most Game Maker's Toolkit-y, let's see how that goes over!
Oh, also, the semiotics of "cuck" is back online.
2020-09-15 20:13:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey team!
Thing 1
Ragnar's new Games from the Underground video is live, complete with my four-minute segment on Peak Bleak Blues. It's mostly the same as when I showed you the preview, but Ragnar put music under it at my request (he's better at sound mixing than I ...
2020-09-05 16:35:24 +0000 UTC View Post![semiotics of "cuck" [mirror]](https://img5.illustratorsleak.com/storage/2/cz/tj/dbda34-019e8ece-47e3-71a2-b524-daca910171ac.jpg)
Hey team, since the new video is blocked in a few countries due to a copyright strike, I've put a mirror of it on Vimeo. Enjoy, Denmark!
2020-09-04 18:39:37 +0000 UTC View PostHey team! Welcome to September.
Ambivalence
The new video went up on Monday and is doing well. Surprisingly so, actually; it got more views in two days than the Kentucky Route Zero video got in two months. Due to the subject matter, YouTube has gone and age-restricted it, which I'm pretty ...
2020-09-03 18:15:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey team! Sorry I've been quiet this month. This video is longer and weirder than any previous CO-VIDs, and the subject matter required many drafts to get right (not to mention many attempts to talk myself out of writing it). I'm pretty happy with it, but... I really wonder what the internet is gonna make of this one.
Currently the song I used for the outro is tripping YouTube's copyright...
2020-08-31 03:29:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya folks! I mentioned that this last week I was working on a small collab with RagnarRox. Here's my piece: a quick look at the walking sim collection Peak Bleak Blues, which sorta functions as an ode to walking sims generally. Ragnar is working on a video about the Black Lives Matter itch.io bundl...
2020-08-05 15:09:43 +0000 UTC View PostHey team!
A Single Video
So right after saying "maybe a video every week is too ambitious, let's treat two a month as the floor" I went and released only one video in July: the (recently-retitled) adventure games about jesus. There's no grand reason for this: there's the sam...
2020-07-31 15:08:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Alright, I settled on "call it 'dropsy/alum' for the first week and then change the name to 'adventure games about jesus' for clicks." The True Fans will get the intended experience, and then I'll tip my hat.
Go tell your friends!
-I
2020-07-23 12:24:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all, this is done and going public tomorrow morning most likely. One of my more left-field subjects. Curious how it's going to go over.
Still looking for a title, all I've got so far is "Dropsy/Alum," which isn't very punchy. I think simply revealing what the video is actually about would bring in a lot of clicks, but it's a stronger essay if it's a reveal? Not sure how to st...
2020-07-22 20:20:43 +0000 UTC View PostHey team!
Returning to Work
We again released two videos this month, respectively talking about the efficacy of political nonviolence and the experience of playing Kentucky Route Zero piecemeal over the las...
2020-07-04 20:59:22 +0000 UTC View Post
sneak into your old high school and play it over the PA
2020-06-29 12:32:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey team! I haven't been doing early access videos for CO-VIDs, but I wanted to throw a rough cut online just to see if the outro music flags the copyright bots and figured I'd send it to y'all as long as it's up. No text or graphics yet, but they're gonna be pretty sparing in this video anyway. Also, mild spoilers for Kentucky Route Zero, if you haven't played it.
Kicking around...
2020-06-27 17:37:18 +0000 UTC View Post
New CO-VID. Sorry for the delay; the world was already exploding when I started this series and in the last few weeks it exploded further. Had to figure out how to work under even more stress than before.
This is the first expressly political CO-VID, and my first attempt to address breaking news on my channel. Script started out big and sprawling, then finally got whittled down to one, pr...
2020-06-22 12:32:14 +0000 UTC View PostHey team.
The Basics
We put out two videos this month. (Thanks to Radek for the excellent suggestion of naming them CO-VIDs.) I also wrote up 2020-06-01 14:04:39 +0000 UTC View Post
oops I did it again
2020-05-25 20:48:38 +0000 UTC View PostHey team,
As of yesterday, my first Quarantine Diary video is done. I'm doing a final pass on it this afternoon and then hitting publish. It's about Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-long Blog. It feels good to be finishing things again!
Here's the current plan for these diary videos:
