This weeks comix

And what a dude like me watches on youtube.

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Up first, the comics then, some yapping about stuff I’ve been into lately.

So while I am drawing I watch an absurd amount of YouTube. Mostly essays or weird “did you know about this?” videos about things over the last decade. I want to start posting different things I like on here because I would love it if others did the same thing. Most of these came to me through the “algorithm” and I wish there was more just general yapping by people about this stuff so I could just see what other people are into.

Better Offline

I am not a particularly pro or anti AI person when it comes to the arts, and especially the kinds of arts I like that are more independent. I just don’t think in the long run it’s going to be accepted by the kinds of people who like this kind of work. Something I point out when people start talking about it is that even with pop music, people care about the person making the music. There are millions more people who check in on what musician is dating who than will ever read comics. The computer can’t kiss, and the computer isn’t a person. It’s just nothing.

What I am concerned about is its place in the economy and its effects on normal jobs. Better Offline is the ranting of a dude who is pretty invested in it but doesn’t have as much of a focus on the arts, so it’s my main source of anti-AI argument and sentiments.

Flesh Simulator

I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone and is personally responsible for the assassination of JFK. I am not sufficiently convinced that there was any direct and actionable internal knowledge that was intentionally not acted on in the months before the 9/11 attacks. But I am deeply interested in conspiracy theory and culture. There ARE interesting things that are provable and common knowledge inside of these communities that regular people just don’t know about.

This part of my life has been deeply unfunny and uninteresting for obvious reasons over the last decade and the turn of that culture away from Big Foot and actual questions towards total brain death.

Flesh Simulator is not that.

How Well Can You Really Know a Game? by Jacob Geller

I haven’t seen any other videos on his channel yet, but I was weirdly moved by this one. He goes into his experience with a strategy guide he read for a game as a kid and talks about an early book about a video game by a musician that went into a level of detail and thought that is pretty unusual.

I think a lot about how I think about the things I like and do spend more time living in those experiences than I do actually engaged with the tasks or media, so I found this pretty moving in a way I didn’t expect. It’s possibly my favorite video I’ve listened too in a long time. The music is also really good? I don’t know if the guy who made it is a musician, but for an essay video it went entirely to hard and fit too well.

Anyways, back to drawing. If there are any youtube videos you think are hi lights of the platform don’t hesitate to pop em my way! See u next week.

Love u!

-Michael