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This month is the usual October spooky stuff, mixed in with some philosophy, mainstream gaming and finally behind the scenes of being a YouTube content creator. As always the written portion of the blog is made with brevity in mind, so please listen to the audio above if you want the full details and nuance with this month’s update. If any links I provide to you do not work, I would consider getting any VPN local to your region and setting a server somewhere in the United States. A WORD OF WARNING, the first YouTube channel link I’m suggesting may contain graphic and heavy subject material that can be uncomfortable to watch or listen to. If you rather stay onto topics more light hearted, please just skip it.

Back in 2010 at a previous job I had worked at, my bosses at the time promoted me to a position that included the management of the company’s YouTube channel (it had 10 subscribers lol). It was there I cut my teeth in learning to speak to an audience for longer than 5 minutes, and be coherent enough to get some type of point across during the process. The reason I’m telling you this is during that same exact time, I was given free range to watch as much YouTube as I needed to in order to “train” myself on how to make videos. This is where I literally for the next 2 years watched hundreds of hours of YouTube paranormal channels. Why paranormal you might ask? Well obviously if fits into this month’s Halloween theme, but more importantly it’s because paranormal subject matter tends to have the presenter speak in a much slower and deliberate fashion. More importantly you will quickly start to realize after countless hours of watching people claiming they’ve seen or heard spooky stuff, that the scariest things out there are quite real. And those scary things that exist are called people. Over the years I’ve always been more paranoid and spooked by the real life actions of human individuals than anything someone’s claimed to see in the shadows or the night sky. So the YouTube channel I’ve sharing with you above dives into a lot of disturbing stuff that you may find both fascinating and horrifying at the same time. Make sure to take a look over the other uploads on the channel as well, since it covers a vast array of topics dealing with crime, paranormal and unsolved mysteries. It’s a dark rabbit hole to fall into, but that’s the whole point of the spooky stuff we all chase after on a yearly basis in October isn’t it?

Long time visitors of my website (and to some degree my YouTube channel) would know that I always try and interject some basic philosophy 101 into the topics I address. This month is kind of special to me as the last 30 days since I’ve last written a blog has been a roller coaster of events and emotions. Outside of finally removing my wisdom teeth that I’ve been putting off for decades now, a lot of other personal events happened that really came out of nowhere that I wasn’t possibly ready for. But don’t worry, I’m perfectly fine and happy (especially now it’s all over!). But it reminded me what I learned back in college so many years ago, and one of the first things I learned when I took my basic philosophy course. The teachings of Nietzche is almost as basic as learning to tie one’s own shoes when it comes to the field of philosophy. But to those who are uninitiated to the field, it’s one of the most important things to learn first. That’s why I’m glad I found a YouTube channel that did a video on this very subject in a very easy to digest way so the message comes across clearly and without academic obfuscation. I hope that you take away something from it; especially in context of when things seemingly don’t go your way in life. Embracing the defeat, the hard times, the unknown and the scary is part of the process in which we eventually understand and grow out of. It allows us to make a new path to progress, and continue onto another month writing another blog, appreciating the calm that all is well again.

Short, sweet, and to the point. I have an undeniably severe love for the Yakuza series. It’s one of those franchises that no one gives a chance until somehow by accident they do. And when it happens, you get a new member to the cult. I spoke on my excitement of Yakuza: Like a Dragon back in November 2020 and since then a lot of folks the world over have started to wake up to the series. Now that a sequel is in the works and stated for a 2023 / 2024 release, I finally have a reason to be excited about something in the mainstream gaming feed again. This series may be the opposite of what I look for in gaming on a daily basis (that being 95% scantly clad females fighting stuff), but there’s a reason for that. That 5% is damn good. And I wouldn’t have it any other way.

I think it’s a good time to refresh the narrative on the story of me and YouTube. As a reminder I don’t make any money off of YouTube (at the time being) in any way shape or form. Also more importantly I have a community strike against my channel and not a copyright strike. This means that I have a direct strike from YouTube and not a 3rd party for any of my content. If you’re curious what that does, it means that any of my videos (and my channel in general) is slightly lowered in terms of priority when results show up for searches. That’s not to say I’m at odds with YouTube, nor do I have any real animosity toward them (nor do they to me). But YouTube is really my secondary platform with my website (the one you’re one on!) being my primary place to share my content. I will always try and share stuff whenever I can when I know it will reach a much larger audience. But YouTube really isn’t the best place for someone like me who has very particular interests. Especially when it comes to anti-censorship and “mature” related material in any form. I just wanted to clear the air and say that I will always be willing to upload stuff to YouTube while I can and when I feel it appropriate to do so. But if you really wanted to know how frankly awful YouTube treats content creators that don’t play by their specific rules, please watch the following two videos from other content creators I respect. It will hopefully shed some light why a lot of talented folks you may have come across over the years simply give up and move on. I hope I don’t end up in the same statistic.

This month’s shoutout goes out to the one and only Noids Edstrom for the “Instrumental vs Vocal” post located here. Thanks for the participation and the insight! Hope you all have a safe Halloween and will see you next month.