Stefan Hayden

These are the video essays I thought were worth sharing this year in a rough order of how much I liked it. I’m not able to give them legit order or cut any but a few out. So here they!

• The 20 Best Train Movies Of All Time
• The Entire History of RPGs
• Robert Altman: America’s Rebel Director
• An in-depth look at Romance in video games
• Building Civilization - A Sid Meier Retrospective
• How The OC saved indie rock
• Know No Shame: Black Sails
• The Harry Potter for Grown-Ups Industrial Complex
• The Unhingery of Unsolved Mysteries (1987-2002)
• Sabrina the Teenage Cashcow - A Video Essay
• How Reality Cop Shows make us LESS SAFE
• TaleSpin (1990-1991) Retrospective/Review
• The Lore of FTL: A Deep Dive
• In Praise of Subtle Performance
• All the RAGE: A Franchise Retrospective by Noah Caldwell-Gervais
• Theme Hospital - Making of Documentary
• How Many Clicks Does It Take To Get to the Center of Diablo? A Franchise Retrospective
• What’s the deal with Seinfeld? - Renegade Cut
• The Past, Present & Future of Soul Reaver - Noclip Documentary
• Plagiarism: A Measured Response
• The Goblin Hypothesis by Curious Archive
• Star Trek Voyager… The Documentary You’ve Been Waiting For!
• A critical look at how we watch video essays
• The 1970s science fiction classic that actually needs a reboot
• Games that Don’t Fake the Space
• You’re Standing on My Neck - A Brief Retrospective of Daria

Great list of active forums from Aftermath. I’ve been looking for a search engine that just searches smaller sites lke these and I don’t think it exists!

A tweet on mastodon is called a “Post”.

Before Nov 14, 2022 they were called Toots. This was fun but mostly was due to a misunder standing of the english meaning.

this is in responce to this youtube video that arguest that all text posts on social networks should be called tweets which to me makes no sense. The idea that a post on twitter with an image and a image on instagram with text should have a different name because of some fundimental valuye of how it is displayed is wild. The only reason these things ever have different names is for corperate branding purposes.

In a federated world a text post with an image can be displayed differently on different platforms so the way a post is made has no bearing on how it is displayed.

Frameland: A Binary Tale looks so cool! An indie rpg with a reto look and soundtrack and rich story is 100% my shit. I feel like it has so much of what made me really love Chained Echos.

it has yet to come out and I don’t like to promote stuff that has not come out but indie studios need more suport so here I am. Add it to your wishlist! I can’t wait to buy this day 1!

Season 1 Review:

This show was pretty good for a Zack Snyder which I usually don’t love. Many of the charcaters seem to start out pretty bland and hard to distinguis but I think it got better as the series went on.

Many episodes are very horny in a way few animations are and in a way different then any anime I have seen is. There is a lot of sex and nudity. Some nudity was not sexualized which is rare in any media.

While I had a hard time getting in to it by the end I was fully invested. The animation style is very nice.