 Hey everybody, it's digi, bro I didn't get to be in the Kirby race because I was too busy traveling around the country doing a bunch of shit and I Was like, you know, I was I was out there man I was seeing the world and I so I couldn't be in the Kirby race even though I love Kirby and I love doing the races the PCP races are a lot of fun. Oh Oh PCP races are a lot of fun and I love doing them even though I always lose Because I never try very hard because I don't practice because I'm not competitive about things that I'm not already good at Nor really anything. I'm just I'm not a I'm not a contender. I guess is what I'm saying This is a weird control scheme But you know, I was sad I missed out on Kirby I mean I would have gotten utterly destroyed by by those guys because I've never played Kirby Superstar before It was the first time I'm playing it ever You know, I never had a Super Nintendo growing up I only only really got introduced to like Super Nintendo games in the last five years or so My friend Don's not has a Super Nintendo that he he gave to to my to my family And so what the fuck am I doing? What is happening? Okay? Okay? He ate the thing Yeah So yeah, I didn't I didn't have a Super Nintendo and You know, my first Kirby was nightmare and dreamland on the GBA I played through I've played through the earliest Kirby games because I made a Kirby video a couple years ago And I was watching I played Kirby games for the sake of that video And I've played little bits of some of the newer ones and some of the DS and another Point being I never got around to this one Even though this is like the one that everybody says is the best like especially the the remake on the DS like is often considered to be the best Kirby game I don't know how much of that is just because there's multiple games Like I don't know if that's like the primary reason that everybody likes Kirby Superstar so much So I think I might have played a little bit of the great cave offensive ones For some reason I don't remember why but I think I probably played a little bit of great cave offensive at some point But but I but I haven't played through much of it. I haven't played this level So So I would have gotten my ass kicked I mean I because I definitely wouldn't have practiced I maybe I would have played through once just so I could at least Like know what I'm in for beside beyond the idea that it's a Kirby game But um the reason I'm playing it right now is simply that I am in my new house And my girlfriend had a wee so we went and kidnapped her wee from her house So that we could play Kirby epic yarn I'm probably not going to let's play that because I want to just play it You know, I just want to play with my girlfriend and have a good time Because it's a very relaxing game I'd rather just play it to relax as opposed to trying to entertain an audience like what I'm doing right now With the constant dialogue so So I you know, I hooked up her wee just now she's at she's at work and I was like I'm gonna check out this We I'm gonna have it hooked up and ready so that when we decide we want to play Kirby We'll have it right there available to us, you know And I turn on the wee and she happens to own Kirby Superstar just on the wee I guess as a you know, probably a digital download You know she probably bought it off of the the Nintendo store or something because she liked the Kirby and I liked the Kirby so So yeah, that's why I'm playing it because I saw it there and I thought oh I didn't get to participate in the race So I'll just make my own video where I do the race You know where I do the same levels they did and we'll see how long it would have taken me had I been there Cuz that video was really short and it's it's funny to think about because I think of the PCP race videos as like the biggest deal on the channel almost like they're the they have by far the most work put into them of Anything that we do, you know, the Dark Souls one had like a really epic presentation It had, you know, several people had practiced for even I kind of practiced for that one Not as much as I obviously should have considering that everyone else was able to beat like too fucking Like like they were able to ring both bells and the time it took me to ring one but but nonetheless I You know it had a lot of effort put into it as a video and the Pokemon one did as well I mean Ben and Nate trained so ridiculously hard for the Pokemon race. It was unbelievable They spent like a month just non-stop doing runs and shit like They fucking practice their asses off and the the result of that is you get this very satisfying Video of like us not only competing with one another but sharing your strategies and like shit talking and all this stuff That goes into it and I really think That the the fact that each of them is 40 minutes was a good thing cuz like 40 minutes is a good chunk You feel like you got this big satisfying video. This like yeah, I had a I had a fun time You know, it was a it was a fucking it was a whole experience You get time to decompress after the the credits roll on the on the guy who won, you know What so the funny thing about that is when the Kirby race came out and it was only 20 minutes It hit me immediately. Oh, yeah, if everyone does well, then there's no reason it would take 40 minutes There's no reason that we'd have this longer You know video where we get to commentate on everything and like really let it sink in like who Won and who lost and everything if we straight up Have someone who takes forever so even though Everyone makes fun of me for my performance in those and I don't try that hard and You know, I suck and I bring down the level of play I think I actually make an important contribution to these videos in that I allow them to be long enough for you know The winner to brag and share his strats and like for everyone to fucking cry I mean the Pokemon race was fucking legendary and even the way I lost was legendary because I lost in such a spectacularly over-the-top fashion such as not actually finishing the fucking game Or the run that we were supposed to do. Well, that was cool. So So yeah, I I figured why not why not give it a shot See how long the video would have been had I actually competed had I had I given it a go Would it have been a 40 minute video as opposed to a mere 20? I fucking just died to a random flower like certainly nobody like I'm the only person who would have died and Left it in my run that would have probably happened That didn't break all the blocks. Okay. I hope that would break all the blocks Why would they put that power right there? Oh God, that's obnoxious Is that just to troll me? Well, I use it all up great. No, I don't even have anything I can't eat this guy. He responds every time I go up. Ah Give me your bombs So yeah, we're gonna learn that today you gonna learn. Oh, oh What did I do? What did I even do? God This I probably would have actually reset my run if it was if I you know if I lost this badly Did I read did I die in the Dark Souls run and keep going? I don't remember if I did I think I might have died once at least. Oh my god. Oh This is this is a shameful display at this point Honestly, a lot of what's fucking me up right now is the controls because I'm playing this with a GameCube controller on an actual Wii and the B button is jump and The Y button is absorbed slash use power. The a button is not used for anything So this is a very bizarre control scheme for Kirby if I do say so myself No, God So obviously I'm not gonna be able to actually talk strategy or anything here since I'm not using any strategy I am just attempting to beat the fucking level. So instead I'll talk about other stuff that's going on with me You know, I've been um, I've been trying to I've been getting back into the human content machine swing over the past week because You know before I left on this this cross-country trip I had made this big deal about the fact that like I make ass tons of content and that's all I do and like you know that It felt like my subscriber base no longer really cared that much about an anime analysis videos compared to just like watching me do shit like Particularly the kind of people who patron me are like often the ones who will just watch like all of my content regardless of what it is so um, I Thought it was starting to seem weird to like to have my patreon dedicated to just one type of video when I make so Many different types and it was so hard to justify other types of videos When they don't make money, you know, so why not change up the formula? And embrace this idea of me as like a guy who just puts out all kinds of shit all the time Not that I wanted to get rid of anime analysis videos or anything You know, I still want to do those especially because DeVu's employment kind of depends on it But like they wouldn't be the sole focus it would be more about like putting out tons and tons of unique stuff all of it Like totally different, you know, see how many different ways I can make a vlog or let's play or or What's the other podcast like those those are my basic my skills my like the things I like to do and I'm good at is like blogging podcasting and Podcasts let's plays. I mean these is really just a podcast But like with a video game involved because I suck at video games and I rarely am the one playing them when we do them God fucking damn. Oh What was that? That was a fucking sick move This is the this is the shit you miss out on when I'm not there for the race you miss out on someone just like Getting their ass utterly reamed like this. I don't know There's there's nothing all that funny about watching three guys be almost just as good as each other, you know Like granted they didn't put as much effort into the Kirby race as like particularly Nate, you know He usually goes all out. He didn't have time. He was busy with me and Mafia and all that Because that's how long that's how far ahead we plan these are usually like the idea is probably like months ahead of when the video comes out but um You know, I'm sure he was busy with all kinds of things. This is a fucking hard boss I really should just get the rock power because that does the most damage. It's just harder to use But but anyways, yeah, like, you know, I missed out I missed that that feeling of like the the huge fjord of difference between like what it means to play skillfully or not Like seeing the way that Nate handled the Dark Souls race and like the giant difference between that and what like You know how hippo was able to do it just by being like insanely good at Dark Souls and Jesse was like You know ahead of me because he's still way He's still good at Dark Souls, you know He used a little bit less tech than than hippo did and then me who uses no tech and it's just like and it's not even that I'm like terrible at Dark Souls. I did fine as like a casual player You know someone who's played through the the Souls series a bit but like Not, you know, nearly on the skill level of someone who has continually played the games more than once as those guys had You know or watching Ben just like utterly fucking wreck Pokemon because Ben is a master a Pokemon master, you know and Ben's just generally great at video games He is he's I can't I don't even have like the dexterity to do a lot of the things you have to do in a lot of like challenge runs You know like I wouldn't be able to probably do the mixing that you're supposed to do for the For the like speedrun of this game. I wouldn't probably be able to do a lot of shit. So You know, I just I don't have the tech. I don't have the abilities I just had to use a continue on this fucking on this fucking thing. That's how bad I am Rock power seemed not great for this bomb seems better so, um Yeah, like It's it's about seeing that difference in skill. I think it's really interesting. But what was I talking about? Oh, yeah Before I got sidetracked by talking about video games again Okay, I think I just beat the first game. I think I just beat the first like Part of this and then I have to yeah, okay, spring breeze is done next. I got to do dine a bird Or dine a blade, whatever the hell it's called Yeah, fuck yeah, let's do it. Oh god damn it. I asked it to explain copy. I don't need this Okay So anyway, what was I saying? Yeah? I've changed everything so that it's more about like frequency of content and and diversity Like it's not just about the fact that it's hyper frequent But also just that I can do all kinds of different things and really play around and experiment and like see what's fun And what I like doing like right now It's like I've got a series going where it's like me and my girlfriend rating pokemon designs, you know Which I think it's like a genius idea because it's such a weird form of content Like it's not something that anybody would have seen coming and yet makes sense And it's like it's kind of the most digi bro thing imaginable because I love making lists I love scoring things in relationship to one another, you know and just like passing judgment and and having an opinion about things And I also love like pokemon and like I've literally done it before like I did it just out of uh just What what even what I consider the reason I did it before like I had just played through pokemon x and y And I think it was because I liked the designs in x and y so much And I felt like they needed defending because you know not everybody's a huge fan of the designs of newer pokemon And I really liked the x and y designs I felt like they were stronger even than some of the you know the classic gens and shit like that and so Yeah, I put together this this series of charts just like Ranking all the pokemon designs and I just posted it on tumblr like it had no purpose to anybody, but me I probably did it all in like a night and so Like I think I just mentioned to may that I'd done that before and she was like that would make a good video series And I was like, oh my god. What have you done like you realize that I now have to do that And like I told her like, you know if I do that it's gonna take forever Like if I if I make a series of videos It's gonna be hours for each one you should be in them too because you also love pokemon and can do the ratings and And it'll also be a fun way to introduce my audience to you because Like, you know, I've put her in a couple videos But she didn't have much to say really because it's like subjects that she's kind of new to Like talking about anime history. That's my bag, you know, I can go on all day But she could talk about some fucking pokemon. She's pokemon lifer like myself So I was like, okay, this will work and and she's also I don't I don't feel like I'm just talking about my girlfriend now. But like because she's a a fashion person and stuff like, um She's into design. So I figured she'd be able to talk about pokemon designs Anyway, that's the the concept of why the video happened But like yeah, it's a very distinctly like this is a thing that could only happen on the digi bro channel And yeah, it's not going to appeal to everybody But there's a you know, there's certain people who are like, oh, this is my favorite thing on youtube right now You know like there's oh what the fuck happened? Oh, get me out. Let me out. That was horrifying. I didn't know they could do that um Anyway, yeah, there's some people who like legitimately love it and are like, oh, this is so much fun I love doing this, you know people who are playing along people who are charting out all the scores and stuff like that Which is you know, I knew all that would happen I was like, this is this is that's the kind of idea this is like if you are into this idea You're gonna be way into it and want to join in and like play along because it's a very inviting kind of setup So, you know And the idea is that like because all the content is so different There has to be a shitload of it because if any one person like doesn't like Let's say you're a patron for 20 a month and you don't even like pokemon, you know And so if my content for the next week is just seven hours Or well more than seven hours Probably close to 10 hours that it will be in total of Me ranking pokemon designs, then you're gonna be like this is fucking boring like I have no interest in this This is not my kind of content and why am I paying for it? You know so like Even though the content is long and voluminous there still has to be something else for those who won't be interested So then it's like well, there will also be all these different kinds of podcasts Some people won't like insufferable social media argument the podcast But some people think it's the funniest shit in the universe Some people won't care to watch a weekly anime or you know me and Nate comment on one like, uh You know made in abyss every week, but it's gonna be there for those who do Oh, you only like three minute videos. You don't like it when I go on all day Well, here's uh the most interesting thing about series, you know and like I still want to make like stuff that's more universal that everyone can appreciate and like But even then there really is nothing like that anymore Like there's some people who have a conception that there is like the people who do like those kinds of videos I get comments from them sometimes like digi. Why aren't you making like good videos anymore? Like what happened to just stuff that's more universal? I'm like, well, you might think it's universal But like when it comes to my patrons a lot of them don't care about that stuff at all Like I'm shocked how often I get comments that are like, I literally don't care about anime I just watch you, you know fucking munchie Munchie who's one of my biggest fans who's seen like every video I've ever made does not give a single fuck about anime He just watches my videos because I make them so like You know, it's It's it's really difficult to like piece together What is the kind of video I can make that will satisfy everybody there really is none It has to be constant content. It has to be stuff all the time And I'm okay with that because I like making videos constantly, you know The only worry the only like anui is wondering, you know Who's gonna stick around for all of it? Like there's gotta be some people who are gonna be mad when this or that one thing doesn't come out And that's why I'd like to have lots of regular like more regular content because then people at least know they'll get this thing like Even if my one-off series like something like the pokemon thing, you know, that's only gonna last a week and then or Eight days however long it takes to go through all the gents And then it'll be over But like if we if me and Nate keep doing like, you know Anime every week and stuff like that or if I keep doing insufferable social media argument And the pub crawl and like these shows that at least you know, you're gonna get so, um You know, even if the the the the new stuff that comes about Isn't something you're interested in at least if you're interested in one of those other shows you will get it You know, and there's some people who will just consume all of it. They don't care what it is and like those people I I feel bad that I release so much because it's like impossible to keep up with but like You know for those who can They are gonna have the best time of all and that's what a lot of the patrons are as people who just watch all of it And they don't give a fuck what it is. They just like me and you know hearing me talk and Being interested in my personality and perspective, I guess So the result of all that Is just this increased weariness about getting into like bigger projects like one of the things I was glad this would free me up for Is like hey, I'll have time that I can set aside for a a bigger project, but then at the same time Um, maybe people don't even want to see those You know like some people won't care about like if I spent all month on a big project There then the people who don't care about it are going to be just as put off as you know, um As the people who do care about it are when I make a bunch of small stuff Not that that's I mean Not that that would stop me if I had a big project I like super wanted to do and I have one that's that I have in mind that I might start soon that I think people will appreciate I don't know what I was doing wrong there but um You know it's just put me in an interesting position where I really have to rethink the way I do stuff and I really um I feel like I'm gonna change the nature of like a lot of things like for instance even the anime analysis videos like Um, I can do them without Uh, like requiring the things that I've acted like I required all the time like for instance, um Like I can talk about shows that maybe I am not doing like because I'm not doing like an analysis video on the show I don't have to watch the whole thing. I can just like talk about it Um, maybe I don't have to script all of them You know stuff that stuff that allows them to fall in better with this constant content model. We're like Right now it's like most of the stuff I make is hour long videos or like the only 10 minute vlogs I do are like random concept shit, but it's never about anime I'm never doing like an unscripted or like lower effort version of what I was doing all this time Um, and as a result, it's harder to fit what I was doing all this time into this new model But I think there's probably ways to do that, you know So for instance, I have this idea for a video that I'm I was planning to write today. In fact, I should be working on it right now, but instead I'm playing Kirby and um Like I just haven't gotten around to writing it because I keep wanting to fill my time with different podcasts and blogs and stuff like that and scheduling around When my girlfriends at work because I've been picking her up and dropping her off at work So there's like a period of time Of like a few hours each day where it's like all to myself that I can work on personal projects And I don't have any obligation to drive anywhere, you know for a little while um And so during that time I try to get as much done as I can And um, so this is I'm in that time right now and I should be writing this video that I've got this idea for um that that was going to be another a broader concept one And basically I was like well the only real thing stopping me is that I have to write this like that that the idea of sitting down to write it because It it's not a complicated video to write. I I know exactly what I want to say. I know exactly how it's going to go. Um You know, it's not a difficult Script but like finding the the exact moment to sit down and like concentrate all my power into writing as opposed to watching a youtube video or doing a podcast or you know uh If my girlfriend's around like doing stuff with her like To do a writing as opposed to that is uh is where I struggle But then I thought about it when I was uh on the way home and I was like wait a minute This doesn't need to be written at all Like this is not something it's not struck the video is not structured in such a way that like it requires um That it requires actual like pen to paper. Well hands to keyboard. I'm fucking this up horribly It doesn't require actual writing like I know what I'm gonna say I can literally just say it into a microphone and then you know edit it together and send that to devout to edit as opposed to Writing out a script and like if I really want there to be a scripted version I can transcribe it later But like it'll go faster If I just fucking deliver it and I can do that because I know how to speak unscripted I've been doing it for the last 20 or 30 minutes. However, the fuck long I've been playing this game You know, I I add in a lot more, you know, and ums and shit and likes when I'm talking unscripted But if I concentrate and formulate each sentence as opposed to trying to talk in one gigantic Unbroken stream of consciousness as I am right now With literally no pauses, which is extremely difficult um Then I can actually think about each sentence and I've done some good work this way already some stuff that people Barely even seem to realize is unscripted like I got no complaints on the lo-fi hip-hop video about it being Unscripted I didn't even get a lot of complaints about it having no video. It was just an audio only um, you know explanation thing That a lot of people really appreciate it. It got pretty good views. It got uh, it was well liked Um people were interested in the subject matter So that's what really matters here like having a script especially if I literally can do it just as well without one Is not necessary and it's if anything just slowing down my process It's kind of like I feel like I've reached the level Um as a talker that an artist reaches where they don't have to do uh sketches anymore You know like there's a level you can get to as an artist where you literally just don't have to sketch things out Because you know what you're doing, you know, like you probably would if you were doing like a really big thing But like you you can draw competently without it. Um Munchy was commenting on this um because he Munchy, uh was at anime expo with me and we went to this trigger live drawing panel where uh Yo-yo Shinari and a couple of the animators and uh, like you know guys who work for trigger We're um, we're doing live illustrations of like some of their characters and shit And Munchy had showed up with a notebook because he was planning to literally take notes on their techniques and like Learn how to you know to draw better But the thing is all of them just like went and just drew like they just did a final draft in one go There was no there was no sketching. There was no like anything like um Yo-yo Shinari himself was doing it in like a painter style where like he would just lay down layers Layers on layers and just a picture would form out of it You know like it would start off looking kind of like nothing and then eventually it would be fucking beautiful um because he just knew where he wanted things to go And uh, you know the other guys just went right to line art and shit and just spent most of the time adding in detail As opposed to the initial drawing because it was two hour panel. So it went on for uh forever and Yeah, like it was it was interesting and I feel like I'm at that point because writing Is literally the same thing as speaking. It's just you put more thought into what words you use When you're speaking you're writing in fast forward You're just writing as fast as you can as fast as the words can come to mind But the actual practice is not very different at least not from the way I write, you know, I'm not writing fucking Uh prosaically. I'm not having to fucking like think of a phrase that perfectly encapsulates an emotion So much as I am just describing You know facts or or like you know Just getting the point across uh without any sort of artistic um Addition there's nothing I'm putting on top of it. It's just how well can I phrase this thing in the moment that you'll get the point But I don't sit there and like craft sentences and shit like that, you know, I mostly just write straightforwardly so for me writing and talking are basically the exact same activity and so it's um Yeah, it's interesting to think that I don't necessarily have to write things down If I can just take the time like like Rather than spending 15 seconds thinking about how to write the sentence and then later recording myself reading that sentence back I can just spend 15 seconds thinking about how to write the sentence and then just say it into a microphone You know, like there doesn't have to be a writing step in there. Um Whoa, what the fuck does this do? Whoa I literally don't know what this does Oh Did I just did it give me his power? Is that what it does? Okay Um, let's just get the fuck out of this fucking stage Nope, I fucked up. I used the power. Nope, and I didn't even do it I thought I had and I hadn't and now I wasted it. Well Good for me um, yeah, anyway Point being that I can do it a lot faster and I'd like to I'd like to um I really want to introduce like a mid level Of content where it's like So I've got the um, you know, the most interesting thing about series and that is kind of Almost mid level except that the point of it is that it's like super Simplistic, it's like literally just the most obvious thing about a show That I don't have anything else to say about, you know and um And like just something I thought was interesting And wanted to talk about but there was nothing else to say about the show So let's just like get that one idea out there and uh, and you know send it along And those like have been written just because like it's so short that I can write it in half an hour And there's no reason not to but like I do think there's a a mid level of content where it's like it's not something that's That massively needs to be worded well like I could never have unscripted done the asterisk or sucks Right because it has to be like processed while watching the show It's something that I have to like pick out the words through the experience of literally watching it and um You know coming up with ideas and all that like it's a very laborious rating writing process But if I'm just like explaining something that's like, uh Yeah, um Here's how this show uh affected Something historically or some shit like that, you know, that's basically what this video. I'm I'm working on is like again I literally already know what I'm gonna say. So like there's no reason to even bother writing it down I know where it's going. So Um, I will not write it as soon as I'm done with this, uh This let's play which is taking longer than I expected simply because of course Watching those guys play through these two levels made it look really short and really simple and easy Um, and to a lot of people it is exactly those things But for me, I did not know what I was getting myself into. I've never played the game. I don't know what the fuck I'm doing. Um So it's taking quite a while. I don't know exactly how long I've been going but I've I've got to imagine it's like 40 minutes. I mean what it always is I always take 40 minutes on these Like the deliberate goal when we choose a challenge is that it can't take more than like 25 minutes to do Like your first time, you know, because if it's something that takes longer to do, uh, you know on the speed run Then it will uh It'll it'll take too long to practice because if you're doing it like ben and nadar where they literally practice like 50 to 100 times Uh, if not more Then yeah, if it's fucking if it's a 40 minute practice session and they have to do it 50 to 100 times It's going to take a fucking long time. Whereas what they're really doing is finding ones that are like that like We'll probably take them 20 minutes the first couple of times and then 12 minutes each time after that And they're really just shaving seconds off, you know, they're just trying to to get like the optimal time They're like literally speed running whereas with me i'm like Just doing it once and like sticking with whatever it would naturally take me with no practice Which um, you know, I don't know why but I find that interesting in itself like to just to just display what the uh What what it would be if you didn't try Uh to to like become a master Like to me the point of the dark souls race was just to show who was best at dark souls at that moment You know like if if the if the competition had been who is the most skilled dark souls player Then hippo would have won because he's better at dark souls than nate But the reason nate won is because he used strategies, you know, he he He he he was the best at doing that challenge. He was the best at Going as fast as you can to beat that boss and I understand why that is more interesting to him Like i'm not saying that he's wrong to think that way. I completely get it But to me it like I had thought the idea was like, let's see who's the best at dark souls You know, like let's see who can who can play the game the most good and um That's not really what the competition was or ever is but um, you know, someone's representing that angle on it So anyways, yeah, there we go. I beat dine a bird dine a blade whatever the hell it's called. Um You know, I'll put my time on screen I'm not sure where the I'll have to look at the video to see where the timer exactly begins and ends but um You'll be able to see my time So you can compare it to everybody else This is the digi only commentary version of a I realize it, you know, and this is the difference between if it was just me versus if I'm in attendance Is that if if I had been in attendance You would have gotten the stuff I was talking about for the first 15 minutes And the stuff I've talked about for the last five minutes and all of the midsection where I just rambled about What's going on in my personal life would have been cut out because it's completely unnecessary to one of these But you know, I was I was a one man. Let's play That ran long so there had to be some content filler in there. I apologize to those who Who didn't who weren't who didn't sign up for that shit? All right Thanks for watching everybody I'll see you in the next one