Amazing channel. Go watch it. Good gravy.

Shit...

Life would be more fun if everyone wore their ancestral clothing as opposed to us all wearing variations on the same 3 outfits.

Dont sleep on @aavoigt.bsky.social channel. It is amazing.

I had someone block me because I said that if you are a decent person online, someone will claim you are a communist. Oddly, it was from left wing folks. I think they thought I was insulting left wing people... To me it seems more like an indictment of right wingers and centrists...

I just found out the korean fishmonger from black panther is the same lady as the geisha from Blade runner...

My End of Year video is on the "Golden Age of Indie RPGs," from roughly 2010 to 2025. I start with Apocalypse World's release, work through the Google+ Era, and follow design lineages and historical events that have impacted the hobby up through 2025.

go.bsky.app/FgvvivG If folks want to follow and/or get to know some TTRPG Video Essayists, then this is the Starter Pack for you. Share this far and wide if you would like

Hey! I just opened a merch store! And from now until the end of the first week of the New Year, I'm running a sale. I'll slowly be adding more things to it, so make sure to check back. hoots-hootman-shop.fourthwall.com/promo/HAPPY2...

Poll: Next book to read 1) The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi 2) The Elusive shift by Jon Peterson

I feel like, for an atheist, I have an unnatural love for the musical Godspell

Is it just me or is "dark academia" fashion very cold weather coded? I couldnt wear any of that stuff in texas... I'd melt.

If you're in the ttrpg longform/video essay YouTube space, let Blerdy know!

I will never get over the fact we have a stocking labeled "Dad"... and that's me...

My partner is making homemade enchiladas, beans, and salsa. Her family requested I make my homemade kimchi jigae for dinner. Merry christmas folks!

My office chair is falling apart after 6 years. Now I need to get a new chair. I liked this chair. Got a discount on a steelcase leap. Boring design but just a wonderfully comfortable chair.

I finished my reread of The Fellowship of the Ring today. Its been 30 years since I last read it. It is much better than I remember. In fact, I think adult me appreciates this book a lot more than kid me ever could. It isn’t without flaws, but it is still a tremendous work.

The most annoying thing in my professional life is the corporate concept of "if you dont spend all your budget, we cut your budget." So now everyone and their mother is desperately spending their budget before end of year... So I have reviewed and redlined over 100 contracts this month. Ugh...

So, if someone rightly corrects an error in my video from x years ago, should I: 1) keep to my rule of not responding to any comments; or 2) give them a heart and reply thanking for the correction

Why is it set to be 78°f (25.5c) on christmas...? It may actually breach 80°f (26.6c)...

I think one of my favorite things is having spicy food for breakfast with my coffee. Something about spicy food and coffee just works for me. I had a few wonderful breakfast tacos with the food truck's in-truck(?) made salsa. my lips are still burning from it. mixed with the coffee? it's like heaven

Remember when some random person put a copyright claim on a song i used in my shakespeare video? Someone else has claimed the same song on the same video... Sometimes, i hate youtube....

I love the fact that whenever I talk about increasing my video productivity, my patreon discord folks respond by saying "Dont burn out. Gotta keep up your mental health." It is a self selecting group of amazing people...

My work team is doing a zombie VR team building thing. We called ourselves the Contract Killers. Sometimes I enjoy the cheesy stuff too.

My 6 year old in the van: dad, can we listen to Blackpink? Me: only if they are in our area... 6yr old: I dont know where they are right now... Me: well, let's ask them.. *starts blackpink song* I thought this was hilarious. They didnt seem to get it...

I am annoyed that i don't have $1000 to throw at this right now... Can i crowdfund my pledge to the crowdfunder? 😆 this looks so amazing.

Why are so many of the channels i watch being sponsored by Bellesa? What does that say about the content im watching... Why arent they sponsoring me...?

Dnd HP was not supposed to be health. It was more heroic dodging. Thats why you can still fight at 1hp So clerics arent healing per se, they're adding "heroism" or "divine evasion". There's rp potential there. Cleric: I saved you! Fighter: um... sure... thanks for the thoughts and prayers, nerd...

I am such a sucker for end of the year wrap up stuff. I viewed a lot of watch ⌚️ youtube...

This also goes into how civil rights group have to use the optics of the cis het white population in their fight for humans rights. See my video on CRT where I discuss Plessy v Ferguson.

Weird to wake up to a pro-nazi comment on youtube. And sad, though unsurprising, that it was not flagged. I've had complimentary comments flagged, yet this one... flew right through.

Normally, @babila.bsky.social and I are friendly, but tonight, I wish him only pain and sadness for the next 3 and a half hours... Hook 'em!🤘🏽

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to: Kendrick Lamar Freezepop Lucky boys confusion They might be giants Postal service/death cab for cutie

Never do sponsored content on the thing that your sponsors make money from. "we are talking about AI" sponsored by "AI company/organization" leads to lying and being a mouthpiece. youtu.be/1IQ9IbJVZnc?...

Online content creation is so bizarre. Someone can have hundreds of thousands of followers across multiple platforms and you could have never heard of them. Someone else could have less than 100k and somehow everyone is the field is like "this person is THE creator we all look up to..."

i was speed watching All American Girl, a 1990s sitcom with Margaret Cho about a korean american family, and i noticed: 1) the korean accents on most of the actors is awful, especially when speaking korean. None of the main actors are korean (cho excluded) 2) Ashley Johnson is in this show!

I had a flair for the theatrical, but I was also an Asian kid who grew up with a tiger mom. I rebelled from folks saying I should be a lawyer I was pre-med, then switch to poli sci to live out my west wing fantasy... Then my spouse started law school and I found I enjoyed the subject.

A movie that takes place where you're from:

Reading a book while listening to the audio book going at 3x speed feels like an adhd life hack I wish I've had for years

I made some korean chicken noodle soup. It turned out really well. Made it spicy with some gochugaru and sesame oil paste... because I'm korean and it must be spicy.

The intense guilt of my day job (which pays my bills) disrupting my ability to do my fun job (making youtube videos which recenlty stopped actively costing me money to produce.) I actively feel bad that I cant get a video put every 2 months I originally wanted to be a weekly video channel 🤣😛🫠

I'd doing my re-read of the lord of the rings. And I was actually excited to get to the section on Tom Bombadil. It has been 30 years since I read the book. I felt like I was experiencing it for the first time It was awful. I'm team anti-bombadil. Felt like a complete waste.

I hate the phrase "it was a simpler time." The world, the times, were never simple. The chaotic mess that we see was always chaotic, possibly more so than now. But many people didn't know that, because information was slower and more controlled. It isn't easy to conceptualize "the world"

Playing dnd with my 6 and 9 year old went amazingly well! They can't wait to play again!

So very true

Hey folks, I need a campaign map maker tool. what are you favorites? Preferably free/single purchase. I don't like subscriptions. Also, i know about Azgaar but i am looking for something with more of a old timey feeling to it. Like the maps you find in the front of novels. example of type of map

Today, after my jujitsu class, I had to play that time honored game: Who's blood is on my gi? At this point I'm still not sure...

My Draw Steel game is having a theme of a brutal world where death is around every corner. But that is more of a result of me not knowing the monster mechanics as well as I do dnd. i set up a random encounter that was like an adventure end boss. in my defense, most of the characters survived.

This is why I dont like "dunking" on folks or making blanket statements of "f- you if you" whatever. I dont think it helps, it simply reinforces tribalism. I feel too many folks just want to be the ones holding the bat as opposed to stopping the beatings Building the better world is harder than hate

I finally saw Fantastic Four. Good gravy, I did not like that movie at all. Folks were telling me it was as good or better than Superman. And i get that i'm a superman fanboy... but, for me... Not even close.