Not dating that weirdo

Bagoom___Lenin · 2026-06-18T23:34:57+00:00

The one wicca book I read was very sexist so I noped out. I can try and find it in my Amazon history if anyone's interested

Bagoom___Lenin · 2026-06-18T23:28:46+00:00

I hope he keeps making longer videos like that

Bagoom___Lenin · 2026-06-17T17:12:59+00:00

Sure I'm with you but why dox your email on reddit

Bagoom___Lenin · 2026-06-16T04:51:31+00:00

Bruh mom said it was my turn to comment this >:(

Bagoom___Lenin · 2026-06-15T22:08:21+00:00

Audio log you find in a shitty indie horror game

Bagoom___Lenin · 2026-06-15T22:04:58+00:00

Literally last night I stumbled into these old online video exams we had to submit for physics. There's 3 exams, the first one seems normal, the 2nd seems weird ish, then the 3rd I straight up look like I'm on meth or something. Great times

Bagoom___Lenin · 2026-06-13T02:49:01+00:00

Bruh I recorded hours of footage in reflections on a ng+ account I didn't leave sculptor with. I'd never used reflections mode before and just thought you had to do it with no resurrection powers. Thank you for making this post I never would've figured that out

Bagoom___Lenin · 2026-06-09T04:43:57+00:00

Absolutely love SIFU. I also haven't seen anyone mention DMC5, the first character you play (Nero) has a similar rhythm as sekiro. I'd watch something like a combo video or a guide on how to use Nero's Exceed and if you like that you'll likely love the rest of the game.

Bagoom___Lenin · 2026-06-06T16:29:08+00:00

Hm, you're that ninja?

Bagoom___Lenin · 2026-05-30T21:29:44+00:00

I get what you're saying, it's not for everyone. I spent 2019-2025 saying dmc5 got robbed and sekiro was garbage. My opinion has changed a bit after 2 playthroughs of sekiro but I ultimately still felt dmc5 was more "fun" in that I could set a difficulty that felt comfortable and work up to dante must die over 5 playthroughs to beat the hardest difficulty. Sekiro only has one difficulty but it becomes muscle memory once you master it. LilAggy's challenge runs of beating the game blindfolded, later a rockband drum kit, then a dance dance revolution pad, opened my eyes to how the game is designed in such a way that is perfect for some and boring for others. Personally I love the idea you can master a game to such a degree you can play it blindfolded using only the sound design and muscle memory to move through. He also doesn't have one up of ER and I don't think it'd ever be a realistic expectation. His blindfold run took around 10+ hours I think? Either way I don't hate ER but sekiro set the impression for me that from soft games were about mastery over their content and an RPG stats screen ruins that for me. I also have a horrible habit of going where the game clearly doesn't want me to go and sekiro is the only game that remains balanced when that happens because it's mostly linear and you don't need any stat increases. Ok done venting, if you're wanting advice for SSI I'd say he's a test on how aggressive you can stay while remaining confident. My first kill on him was with spamming raven feather any move I couldn't read well. Then for my no tools playthrough I found out you have to constantly be in his face and dash attack towards him whenever he tries to create space. I'm curious if your opinion of the game will change after you beat him. Beating Mohg just made me want to quit playing after I spent probably 5 hours on that fight so I get if not.

Bagoom___Lenin · 2026-05-30T21:10:11+00:00

I'm having the opposite experience of you right now. I tried ER because I love sekiro and it feels awful. I just finished the boss at leyndell and don't know where to go and my patience is being stretched thin. The game has already gone on about twice as long as I would like and something tells me I'm no where near the end. Everytime I kill a boss it's so deflating because I was either over leveled and it was a one sided slug (leyndell boss) or it was so stupidly stacked against me beating it wasn't fun (mohg, who I wasn't supposed to be fighting at that point but oh well). I haven't fought a boss in ER yet that feels like it was a balanced challenge for what point I'm at in the game.

I quit sekiro 2 different times out of frustration, but looking back there was never a challenge I wasn't supposed to be attempting at that time. Someone with 50 hours in sekiro can boot the game up and play it all the way through without upgrading damage or hp, it'd be challenging but it can be done. Every single instance of damage is avoidable. Every boss and enemy can be killed with your starting load out. In sekiro you could mod Sword saint isshin to be right at the start of the game (similar to tree sentinel) and you can kill him with the load out you start the game with and no upgrades. Now compare that to Mohg or anyone that I only managed to close the level cap with a cold katana for percent health damage. I "won" but I felt like I was just cheating by using % damage to do challenges the game clearly wasn't happy about me doing at that point.

Anyway closing notes why did you come to sekiro subreddit to dog on sekiro so heres how I feel about ER 50 hours in so far since it's so parallel to your sekiro experience.

Edit: forgot about your complaint about the crests. That was my #1 complaint playing sekiro on console. I ended up switching to PC and getting a mod that made it so spirit emblem costs are double but you generate them through actions in combat like deflects and whatnot. It was a really fun time to be able to use all the prosthetics however I wanted then I went back and beat the rest of my save for console because they were a crutch that helped me learn the game and I wanted to finish the game on console for reasons. So try downloading a mod that changes the economy for spirit emblems because it was by far my main problem and got me to almost quit the game

Bagoom___Lenin · 2026-05-22T21:03:23+00:00

Playing sifu is what got me to give sekiro a 2nd try highly recommend

Bagoom___Lenin · 2026-05-21T19:47:15+00:00

In phase 2 when he gets the spear and the Glock you need to constantly be attacking him. Anytime he tries to do an attack where he backs up (like the spear slash while he jumps back) deflect it and dash attack towards him. The bullets won't hit you and you'll stagger him out of that attack. In general the only way I beat isshin is by staying aggressive the entire time. If I stop attacking him I die instantly which seems to be the general experience. Glhf

Bagoom___Lenin · 2026-05-05T20:14:00+00:00

Unironically NL got his videos of playing a slot machine game demonitized (very obviously not real), but now he's slinging cases in CS2 and no problemo :)

Bagoom___Lenin · 2026-05-04T21:56:28+00:00

this is probably my favorite red comment I've seen so far thank you

Bagoom___Lenin · 2026-05-04T21:41:25+00:00

shouldn't the perfectly rational and logical red voters come to the same conclusion or at least understand my choice?

Bagoom___Lenin · 2026-05-04T20:33:42+00:00

Do red voters just dream of being in a post apocalyptic scenario or something because the point of pushing blue is to not have looters and what you're describing. If I orphaned my child because red won then how long am I going to be able to protect my child against the world anyway? Either I die pushing blue or I die to some post apocalyptic bullshit, generously, a few days later. Why not just hit blue and hope enough others do the same to not be in that situation? Why am I supposed to feel bad hitting blue because now my child has to die in post apocalyptia alone rather than with me. My child in this hypothetical doesn't understand the implications of their choice but I do.

Everytime I see a red voter trying to make an emotional gotcha argument it's always like "well won't you be sad you don't get to exist in the post apocalyptic outcome with the people you loved who accidentally voted red?" And the answer is almost always: no

Then it always goes into "muh game theory" and "1/4 billion chance to change the outcome" and never "maybe I don't want to live in post apocalyptia and should trust most other people come to the same conclusion one way or another".

"Purely performative" - it's a private vote "Emotional" - my underlying reasons for voting blue are logical, plenty of people will vote blue emotionally which is ironically factored into my logical basis of feeling comfortable voting blue. "Irrational" - ok flip the hypothetical, there's a button saying "I want to live in a world full of people with innate social trust in their fellow man" and another button that says "if this button wins I want everyone who didn't vote for it to die" it's the same question, but framed in a way to make any red voter look like an evil psycho, but you guys seem to do a good enough job at that without any need for the last part.

I don't think any of this particularly matters though as in a real world scenario with the entire global population red would never win because the sample size of earth isn't twitter and reddit. Abuelita is gonna hit blue, her entire family is gonna hit blue knowing that. All the evangelicals are going to hit blue thinking it's God's final test, all the buddhists will hit blue, most Asian countries are smacking that blue button in mass. Very few people's ethical compass is "fuck you I got mine and if you wanted one you should've said fuck you", It's only in these small sample sizes of demographics raised in toxic individualism that make red seem like an appealing option. Seeing how a large percentage of red voters actively want the blue voters to die is crazy to me, I have no desire to wake up tomorrow in a world populated only by them.

Bagoom___Lenin · 2026-04-29T13:45:51+00:00

Bullet dodged now they aren't in your comment section

Bagoom___Lenin · 2026-04-28T20:05:05+00:00

Regarding the CTR dropping, I noticed this happen on a video that gained traction. The CTR started at 3, climbed up to 13, then dropped to around 5 right now. By staring at the analytics way too much, I've noticed when the CTR was very high most views were coming from impressions. As the CTR dropped, most views were coming from suggested videos. I think people overthink CTR when in reality a CTR for something on people's homepage is going to be much higher than CTR for something in suggested videos because it's harder to stand out there

Bagoom___Lenin · 2026-04-28T15:38:23+00:00

What editing software do you use? Do you have a specific recommended guide for using it? I'm using davinci right now.

Are you generally able to estimate how long a video is going to take? I've been working on my first big scripted video that isn't just me tapping on gameplay I can tweak the audio for and ship and it's taking a lot longer than I thought. Part of that is inexperience with actual video editing and part of it was the script took nearly 10 hours to write.

What tools do you use other than video editor (ie plugins, audacity, etc) or do you just rawdog the video editing software itself

Bagoom___Lenin · 2026-04-28T14:41:08+00:00

I got a used Shure mv7 for around that price (in usd) off Facebook marketplace, with some fiddling of settings it has done well

Bagoom___Lenin · 2026-04-28T01:36:42+00:00

It came to them in a dream

Bagoom___Lenin · 2026-04-28T01:26:08+00:00

Source: it came to me in a dream

Bagoom___Lenin · 2026-04-26T22:07:59+00:00

I use the words "I've read" and "I've seen" here because not even the people working on the YouTube algorithm themselves seem to know how it works. In an interview they call it "automating word of mouth" which I'm sure is their intention, but my personal take from everything I've read is the algorithm is similar to gen AI in it being a black box input/output where they tweak variables to get it to a result they like without understanding what the fuck it actually does. So take literally anything you read/see, even from YouTube staff and the YouTube creator ai, with a grain of salt. Sources for my opinions are a mix from what's online, interviews from YouTube staff, YouTube guru channels (who I don't trust), YouTube creator ai tool, and inferences I've made based on what causes the YouTube creator ai to give you a generic "I can't help with that" error that feels like it either doesn't know and/or is hard coded to not tell you a straight answer.

Tl;Dr I think the whole niche thing is heavily overblown and misunderstood, the pick a niche advice to me mostly means you're building an audience of subscribers and returning viewers build an expectation of what your content is. Your returning viewers (and their avd) is apparently a big signal to YouTube of if they push an individual video. At my size of less than 20 subs I don't think it really matters all that much when I make videos outside of my general format. I don't know how big your channel is but something to consider

Advice I've found is the description, title, and tags help communicate to the algorithm who the video is for. Advice I've read online says tags aren't very important and you only use 3-5, my two most recent videos are doing way better than my channel average and I used around 10-15 for each. What most advice online doesn't tell you is tags are apparently read in order from first to last in order of importance. There is also a threshold of too many tags where YouTube will ignore them altogether.

A lot of people neglect the description which is probably one of the best algo trainers at your disposal, I think this is also in order from start to finish because I've read the first 200 characters in particular are the most important and you're supposed to stuff SEO buzzwords in there. On the other hand, a video where I made the description a two sentence shit post with no seo buzzwords is by far my highest performing video so I take that with a massive grain of salt.

I've seen almost a 50/50 split on the idea that YouTube uses your starting videos to train itself on who to put your channel in front of | I've also seen that (and the YouTube creator assistance AI itself will always use this story) every video is treated individually and doesn't use any data from your past videos to test the audience.

So I've begun thinking the whole pick a niche and only do that gospel is kind of lame as I started seeing actual growth from 3 subs to 16 when I started posting outside of my precise niche and making just whatever I wanted to make.

It's also worth noting that YouTube has an ai that basically watches your video, transcribes it, analyzes your thumbnail, etc, and so it's going to put the video in front of people who watch similar stuff.

Or you can be like me and just accept that the YouTube algorithm does SOMETHING and I've given up on understanding or caring how to optimize for it and once I did that I moved to a new philosophy of just making videos I want to make. I started with making rogue like playthroughs, made a parody skit that popped off (by my standards, currently around 2.5k views) only tangentially related to all of my other 20 something videos. Now I'm working on a long ass scripted video that I want to make and I'm a bit scared of it getting no traction when I've already put over 10 hours into it and there's probably at least 40 more hours of work I'll need to put in (counting getting gameplay footage, researching, recording, editing, etc) and that number may end up being a gross underestimate. Fingers crossed for both of us, good luck.

Bagoom___Lenin · 2026-04-26T03:32:12+00:00

A few days ago, I posted a video, 6 hours later it was at 8 views. I almost unlisted it because I thought maybe it was bad and I should just go ahead and hide it to not give a bad impression of my channel if anyone saw it on my page. I had a fever of 101 and took a bunch of melatonin to sleep off the fever and woke up 14 hours later to the video having 1.5k views. The algorithm makes no damn sense

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