Just as things were starting to open up worldwide, we unfortunately get hit with a little bit of regression in regards to travel. So just like everyone else, me and my wife have had to make the best of the situation while a lot of things are closed around us. I never thought of myself personally as someone who could go stir crazy (and for the record I’m far from), but I can certainly start to appreciate the freedom I had back in February of this year. Let’s all hope together this ends sooner than later, cause I’m really stretching what I can find out there that’s interesting on the internet that you probably haven’t already stumbled upon yourself being stuck inside like we are!
Let’s start with the mainstream stuff first. Literally one day after my last update, a new streaming service (free by the the way) opened up called Peacock. I’m not in any way shape or form associated with them (or getting endorsed), but I do want to bring them up since they actually have a couple of series “free” to watch on their platform that I have endorsed here on the site. Chiefly, they have the original run of Unsolved Mysteries that runs a staggering 222 episodes! That alone is worth taking a look in my opinion since you’re going to be getting all of that content on a licensed platform at the best possible quality, without all of that icky “potentially pirate” aftertaste that comes from 3rd party “gray” area streaming sites. I can’t recommend it enough for anyone to check out this original series if you want something to run in the background and have nothing better to watch - it might serve as an impromptu history lesson of the culture and world at the time as well. It’s also a good way to see why Robert Stack was such an awesome host, only marginally less charming than Jonathan Frakes on Beyond Belief (but that’s just my opinion!).
Onto some personal news, I want to sincerely thank everyone for pushing me past 1000 YouTube subscribers! Although I have always wanted to make BoxInACorner the main hub for all of my content (and I still do of course), it is still nice to see that I am able to make some type of impact in the massive landscape of YouTube. I did not know of the existence of the community tab (a recently added feature I believe) that allows you to use it as a pseudo news feed, and I want to take advantage of that for the folks that genuinely care about anything I have to say. To this end I will be mirroring the videos that I “exclusively” link on the website over there as well. That way it doesn’t clog up the main channel feed and it will help fill the void in-between major video releases. In the old days most folks would open up a second YouTube channel where they would post content not entirely related to the main theme of the videos being released. I think with the community tab now being able to host videos, it will be a good platform for me to post secondary content. In any case, thank you once again for the 1K achievement, and onward to 2K!
As I’ve mentioned in previous updates, I’m a huge fan of the Yakuza series from Sega. So it goes without question that I am looking forward to the new release Yakuza Like A Dragon that has a worldwide release date of November 13 2020. Although I will not be personally doing a play through of the game (one of my least viewed content on the YouTube channel by the way) I will enjoy it as a fan and hope you do so as well since I still love the absolutely quirkiness of the series set among a crime drama. If you haven’t played or tried the other games in the Yakuza series, the vast majority of them are now on PC and are on sale for half off most of the time. So more reason for you to check them out if you like what you see, and I hope you do.
Since it’s almost mandatory for me to end all updates with something lewd and or anime related (cause most of my visitors came from my YoutTube channel after all), then this is a friendly reminder to take care of your wrists! I personally know a lot of people who have wrist problems (Carpel tunnel) from sitting at a keyboard all day without the proper supports. I also know that some folks get really bad mouse fatigue from using a boring, flat mouse pad. So I always suggest to them (I’m dead serious!) they look into a wrist support mouse pad - chiefly in the form of an “Oppai” mouse pad or similar. Amazon currently carries these mouse pads in droves, but I’m not sure how long before they’re pulled from the “shelves” so to speak due to the political climate we are in at the moment. I won’t (and refuse to) go into those issues on my site, but let’s just say I actually have a small stock pile of these type of mouse pads to use should one ever start to get worn and fail on me. I suggest you look into them while you can and while they’re affordable. They might not be around for long! Don’t worry about the designs as well - they’re is sure to be something that suits all tastes out there. And you can always just use a plain boring single color one!
