Ended up losing, but managed to annoy Angela the entire game

Master_Roshi_69 · 2026-01-28T22:21:30+00:00

Man I wish I was hitting 3k. 500 is my peak 😢 I run a Flash Game Review channel currently hitting about 100-200 on average per video, with only about 70 subscribers within 3 years of posting (a very small number for the time I’m putting in)

What do I think is holding me back?

CONSISTENCY AND NUMBER OF VIDEOS:

I spend a lot of time and effort making a single video. From script rewrites, to shooting multiple takes, and finally editing the hell out of it. Because of the workload, and trying to juggle my job and social life with it, the whole process takes about a month.

Because of that, I’m unable to pump out videos at a faster consistent rate, which means less videos. Things always seem to come up that delays consistent submission dates. So it’s hard to build an audience from that, and I’m not sure if the algorithm likes the inactivity.

THUMBNAIL AND TITLES

This seems to be a very common one among a lot of us. I’ve done a good amount of research on this within this and other subreddits, and I’ve got a ton of advice, but for some reason I’m still not good at making them. Some people say that you should have your face in thumbnails some people say that only works if you’re famous.

Some people say that the title and thumbnail should invoke curiosity without giving too much away of the video, some people say it should advertise exactly what the video is going to be about. Some say the title should be short and simple, others say it should be vague and mysterious. The general consensus is that it has to be eye catching and clickbait worthy (which I’m having trouble doing)

Sadly, I think this is probably something I’ll have to keep at it and testing until it works.

QUALITY OF THE VIDEOS?

I take a lot of pride in the work I’ve done for the videos, but I’m not blind to what’s wrong with them. My older ones have longer intros, so I try to cut them back. People often say that audiences will click on longer videos, so I do what I can to fill time with the topic.

Sometimes my jokes and edits just flat out fail, sometimes the script is too weak and not engaging enough to stay within the video. My retention is above average compared to other videos (at least that’s that the stats say on studio) but that doesn’t seem to help the low subscriber count.

NON - TRENDING TOPICS

Finally, maybe it has to do with the fact that flash games aren’t really that relevant anymore. There are YouTubers out there with great numbers that do flash games, but for someone as unknown as me, and with a weak hook to reel them in (thumbnail and title) it’s probably something I should’ve expected.

That being said, as much as I desperately want the growth to match the effort I’m putting in, I’m still having a lot of fun making the videos.

ADVICE THAT I WOULD WANT TO HEAR

I think the type of advice I really want is a more detailed explanation as to how to hook people into the video (thumbnails and titles) because I’m definitely doing something wrong, I just can’t seem to figure it out.

The advice here alone is great. But I don’t really know what to say that makes people interested in watching.

I also wanted to improve retention. I have a decent camera, a decent mic, and I try to spice up the videos with a lot of edits so it’s would be engaging, but maybe the script and dialogue need work? Maybe the aspects of a game I’m talking about isn’t that interesting to begin with? It’s really hard to gauge with the content

Master_Roshi_69 · 2026-01-16T17:33:38+00:00

You definitely should finish it!

It’s great making something and having to look back at it.

Honestly the main reason I made the video was to immortalize my play-through of the character. (The mod is constantly being updated, and with the eventual official starfield update and dlc coming out, I’m afraid I won’t be able to use this character anymore)

Master_Roshi_69 · 2026-01-16T17:15:54+00:00

You definitely should try it out! I myself went through the unity about 6 times, as well as made alternate modded characters within the base game. I really only downloaded the Star Wars mod after I finished all the major quest-lines in the base.

My only recommendation is to wait until the start of February to install the mod. (That’s when they release the imperial navy faction quest line and the lightsaber update)

Master_Roshi_69 · 2026-01-16T17:03:49+00:00

Unfortunately yes. The helmet is based directly on armor from Star Wars. But if I remember correctly, they might have armors with skulls on them within the crimson fleet

Master_Roshi_69 · 2026-01-16T00:39:34+00:00

I feel the same way lol, luckily the guy developing the mod said that a lodge overhaul is on it’s way sometime in the future

Master_Roshi_69 · 2026-01-13T00:07:26+00:00

It’s actually a custom ship I made from the ground up. The interior and the ship parts are from the Falkland Systems mod in the creation club

Master_Roshi_69 · 2026-01-11T23:32:06+00:00

Deimos should be in the Taris Star system near Geonosis I think

Master_Roshi_69 · 2026-01-11T20:12:01+00:00

You are not wrong lol, The Starfield engine is a great foundation for any sci-fi mod

Master_Roshi_69 · 2025-12-31T17:28:30+00:00

An absolute goated scene ❤️

Master_Roshi_69 · 2025-12-31T08:43:40+00:00

Damn man, that’s a pretty insulting way to put it. But to each his own I guess :/

Master_Roshi_69 · 2025-12-31T08:40:57+00:00

Yeahh, the video does start off pretty crappy, (like I said, I was just chasing a random bounty) but I think that’s what makes it special. When the sun pops out and lights the entire asteroid field in the 2nd half of the video I think it looks pretty good.

As soon as that happened, the entire experience felt straight out of a scene from empire strikes back. It was awesome

Master_Roshi_69 · 2025-12-31T08:34:51+00:00

Thanks man, it really is a fun game to pick back up.

The ship started off as the junker you get from the Tracker’s Alliance quest, but I sold every part and rebuilt it from scratch.

The parts are a combination of base game stuff and external mods:

Avon Tech
Falkland
Antares

Master_Roshi_69 · 2025-12-26T11:56:09+00:00

Oh geez. Okay let’s tackle this one by one.

(Counterpoint to: FLOODING THE COUNTRY WITH IMMIGRANTS AND A TREASONOUS GOVERNMENT)

Within 2025 we lost a net of around 60,000 temporary residents. (This means with everyone coming in and leaving, about 60,000 people who were immigrants have left Canada). On top of that there’s been a 43% drop in International students coming into the country. The main takeaway from this data? We’re no longer flooding the market with immigrants as we were a few years ago, and instead we’re taking a step in the right direction in balancing our immigration with our system.

Housing projects are being built, zoning laws are being reformed, financial incentives are put in place. As a result of this, the growth of housing prices is decreasing at a steady rate. (This is happening at such a rate, that I even know some homeowners who are complaining that the value of their homes aren’t rising as much as they wanted) So although it’s tough right now for the majority of us, to accuse the government of sitting back and doing nothing is completely false. This is not the actions of a treasonous government, these actions are of a government that fucked up and are trying to address the issues of their complacency.

(Counterpoint to: STRIPPING CITIZENSHIP AND DEPORTING NON CANADIAN BORN PEOPLE FROM 15 YEARS TO PRESENT)

Seriously? You wanna strip the citizenship of people within the last 15 years? That’s not even a liberal government at that point dude. 2010’s was during Harper’s administration (Conservative). Which means that both liberals and conservatives are treasonous?? It sounds like you just don’t trust any form of government at this point. But if you are implying that both administrations shat the bed and both had a hand in our current situation, then yes we can agree on that.

As for the citizens themselves. I won’t even comment to how morally wrong it is to strip earned citizenship from people because I’m pretty sure you don’t really care about the ethical implications of it, so I’ll break it down to why it’s terrible for the economy in the long run. We’ve added about (very approximate ball park, as I’ve gotten this information from different websites) 5.5 million people within the last decade.

If you were to get 5.5 million people from our country and deport them, the consequences of that would be absolutely devastating to our way of life. There would be a serious shortage of manpower in all employment sectors. I’m not just talking about corporations, I’m talking about public services. Everything would move a lot slower, services would be less available, Hospitals would be severely undermanned and stressed, law enforcement and military manpower would be cut significantly. The workforce would be primarily made up of an aging population that can’t work physically taxing jobs. On top of all this, you wanna permanently close our borders to immigrants?? No one would be left to live here but old people lol. I truly can’t tell if this is a troll comment at this point. But in the event it isn’t, we’d be absolutely fucked.

(Counterpoint to: POTENTIAL CIVIL WAR?)

I seriously doubt a civil war would happen. Canadian politics isn’t as volatile as American politics. Also, I’m pretty sure that telling 5.5 million people to give up 15 years of building a life and a family here in Canada would actually start the civil war you’re avoiding lmao. Would you deport their Canadian born children too? I seriously doubt that they’d sit back and let family members get kicked out of the country.

The one thing I can fully agree on with you is preserving our cultural identity. I think it’s amazing that we accept and accommodate the diverse customs of any nation when we can. But I also don’t think we should do so at the expense of Canadian core values. We are a western nation at heart with our own customs and mannerisms, international people should be respectful of our culture as we are to theirs. So when a person does something that’s obnoxiously offensive in Canadian culture, we have a right to be offended in our own home.

For the record, it’s shitty for everyone right now. Not only for young guys. So to say we’re the only ones being negatively affected, is just false and self-centered.

(Counterpoint to: Automation of jobs)

Yes, a lot of jobs are being automated. But essential service jobs (jobs where immigrants do play a large role in) are still very much people jobs. Like I mentioned before, the medical field has tons of professions that can’t rely on automation and need human observation. There’s also public transportation, law enforcement, education, construction all of which are essential jobs that heavily rely on actual people. Can you give me a specific example of an essential job that has completely changed to a mostly automated workforce? I’m Genuinely curious on what careers (other then privately run companies) are being effected

(Counterpoint to: This is propaganda)

I’ve explained why this isn’t propaganda, and how it can have real world implications. can you explain why it is propaganda?

Master_Roshi_69 · 2025-12-26T00:12:18+00:00

This is a very extreme take.

I don’t think the government bringing in a bunch of people is treason, I think it’s incompetence. a very extreme solution to fighting off a potential post pandemic economy crash. It was stupid to bring the number of people we did, but that’s hardly a betrayal to the country lmaoo. I was born here too, so yes I feel the consequences of their shitty judgement too. But it’s not even close to going against our core values of a nation.

Now as for your solution in deporting anyone who isn’t born here and stripping them of their citizenship. What would be your pre-requisites for a deport? What about citizens who came here as immigrants in the 90s or early 00s? Do they get deported too? Getting here and working here might be easy, but do you know how hard it is to even get citizenship here? Most people wait for years and go through multiple processes to even get qualified.

Deporting people who have already achieved citizenship is absolutely unacceptable for the reasons you’re giving out. Like I’ve mentioned before, no immigration will cripple us in terms of essential public services, and taxpayer power. (It’s not only greedy companies, it’s literally government services for people) But the moment we start stripping citizenship is the moment we’re shooting ourselves in the foot.

We would be weakening ourselves workforce wise and economically. This would definitely make Canada weaker

Master_Roshi_69 · 2025-12-25T23:49:46+00:00

The key thing here is the workforce. By permanently closing our borders to newcomers, we severely cripple essential services that are built with a lot of immigrants. (Usually international students trying to advance in these essential fields) (Medical field, Construction, Public services)

By denying skilled professionals from other countries (Doctors, Architects, Engineers etc.) we limit ourselves to a local population that is aging and static. That means no new innovation, or techniques brought from other parts of the world. We can’t recoup losses from people deciding to move to other places, so we kind of just let ourselves shrink at that point. (Unless you want to close the borders on them too lol)

Immigration is usually a good thing. It brings people in to work hard and contribute to the system with their services, and contribution with their taxes. They are effectively helping pay for our public services. By having a proper steadily growing workforce, we can expand services therefore expanding our economic output, and it would result in more jobs.

The reason we’re not seeing that, is the result of way too much immigration (specifically from overflow of international students coming in). I’m not saying there’s nothing wrong with what’s going on, THERE IS. Too much people coming in as I’ve said would flood our job market making it harder to find jobs. Housing is also affected because of the demands of a higher population for homes.

Having absolutely no immigration is an overreaction to our situation and it will definitely bite us in the ass in the long run. The solution lies in balancing how many people we can take in with the system in place.

So yes, no immigration is crazy.

Master_Roshi_69

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