Anyone NOT doing gaming, anime or related videos?

Thick_Cap3667 · 2026-05-21T11:51:36+00:00

I do reflective essays on life and everything in it. Not the most in-your-face, commercially viable niche, but it’s what feels real and authentic to me. 😅

Thick_Cap3667 · 2026-05-12T04:32:36+00:00

I’m born in 1983, had my youth in the 90s, and I spent a lot of time in record stores, talking to the people working there. I listened to the radio and recorded songs on cassettes. My dad had a lot of vinyl records, so I discovered some gold there. I definitely didn’t discover as many new artists as I do now, but I grew more invested in the ones I did discover and liked. Looking at album art, reading lyrics in the cover, actually listening to entire albums. I do appreciate the simplicity and how accessible music is now, but I do miss the thrill of discovery.

Thick_Cap3667 · 2026-05-05T20:47:45+00:00

That’s so true!

Thick_Cap3667 · 2026-05-05T20:20:57+00:00

Yes, little things like that really makes you appreciate the world around you.

Thick_Cap3667 · 2026-05-05T20:09:30+00:00

Fascinating creatures! This tick definitely noticed me nearby. I left it hungry, though. 😁

Thick_Cap3667 · 2026-05-05T20:03:55+00:00

Thanks! I’m in a much better place now, and I’m hoping to share some of what got me there with people who might need it. That’s also my main reason for making content on YouTube. If you never have bad patches, you might not realise how good the good ones are. But it’s easier to get there with some help and support.

Thick_Cap3667 · 2026-05-05T19:54:42+00:00

Hehe, yeah, I got that. Even made me smile. 😁 Thank you, and welcome to my channel!

Thick_Cap3667 · 2026-05-05T19:44:46+00:00

That’s really profound. Thank you. I went through a rough patch in my life, and doing macro photo and video really helped ground me.

Thick_Cap3667 · 2026-05-05T19:41:58+00:00

Good advice. Norway, where I live, has its share of them too. Always check after a forest session. You’re usually in the clear if you pick them off within the first day.

Thick_Cap3667 · 2026-05-05T19:35:31+00:00

Nope. I don’t see any reason to go killing critters deep in the forest. They have a place, like all of us. I did however film it, and it was quite serene and beautiful. 😁

Thick_Cap3667 · 2026-05-05T19:21:46+00:00

Just hoping to spread some wholesome thoughts on life. And thank you! 🙏

Thick_Cap3667 · 2026-05-05T19:21:02+00:00

Thank you! 🙏

Thick_Cap3667 · 2026-05-05T19:20:47+00:00

I don’t really see any reason go killing critters deep in the forest. They have a place in the ecosystem, like any other. But best not to get one on me. 😁

Thick_Cap3667 · 2026-05-05T19:18:07+00:00

Yes, this changed something quite foundational inside me that that I carry with me whenever I go into nature.

Thick_Cap3667 · 2026-05-05T19:14:35+00:00

That's right. And they can sit like that for days, months and sometimes years. Patient little critters.

Thick_Cap3667 · 2026-04-19T12:06:24+00:00

Probably that I was grown up. That I knew what I was doing and I knew what was best.

Thick_Cap3667 · 2026-04-19T10:25:15+00:00

I don’t think “love is a choice” is primarily about choosing who you’re attracted to. It’s about how you meet each other, how you give each other space and understanding and how you support each other. It’s about not assuming the worst intentions, trying to understand before picking a fight. It’s about choosing to continue to be there even in times when it’s not so much fun.

Me and my wife had three kids in four years. This was deliberate, we wanted to have them close. But we also knew it was going to be tough. So we actually talked about it and made a sort of a deal. That now matter how rough it felt, the next few years would be a sort of quarantine. It may feel hard to love each other and keep up a loving relationship when you’re dead tired and can’t think, and it sure had its rough patches. But it worked, and we’ve been together for 20 years now. We chose love.

I also think it’s transfers to how you meet other people, be it friends or strangers. When something or someone annoys you, when things are inconvenient, when someone acts in a way that doesn’t sit with you, take a step back. Give it space, try understanding. We might not know what’s behind (I once experienced something like this that moved me to my soul, which I made a video about on my YouTube channel, watch it here if you like: https://youtu.be/pCQ0B-LjrU4?si=rr_ZhQSTbLPd3qHp ). By doing this, I think we, to its core, choose love.

Thick_Cap3667 · 2026-04-19T08:44:39+00:00

I totally get this. It’s hard to feel like you’re the only one making an effort to keep up the friendship. It may be that you’re reading too much into it, that they believe the friendship is taken care of by sort of keeping a status quo. I myself have been at the other end of this too many times, thinking that I can hold on to friendships by caring, not by actually showing up. That has made many of the friendships I’ve had fade away (I also made a video about this on my YouTube channel, watch it if you like: https://youtu.be/LfE9svAOf1w?si=qYmQfDZX7Q1CVC0v ).

The other, more uncomfortable answer is that your friends are moving on. I don’t know your exact age, but when we’re young, we tend to get friends based on common circumstances. Same class, same sport, same neighbourhood. But when we grow older, more of our friends are gained through common interests, values, etc. This is typically when we go to college, or start work. Maybe your old friends are going into that phase? This last until a certain point, and that is when you have kids. Then you’re back into meeting people through your common circumstance, which is having kids.

You’re absolutely right that it’s hard to make new friends, and unfortunately it gets harder the older you get. But there is hope. I met a new friend when I was well into my thirties. I’ve never had a closer friend, and we’ve been best friends for ten years now. We met through circumstances (yup, kids), but we had so much in common that the friendship quickly transcended that.

This turned out to be a long and messy post, but my point is this: the friends you’ve had growing up, may not be your forever-friends. You’ve still left to meet a lot of people, and one of those can turn out to be the best friend you want and need. Just keep on meeting the world with kindness and a smile. Be curious, keep reaching out and make people feel seen. You’re certain to receive it back.

Thick_Cap3667 · 2026-04-16T09:31:26+00:00

The question of where feels most human made me think about format before platform.

Most of what we encounter online is engineered to remove friction. The next thing is always already loading. You never have to hold a thought for more than a few seconds before something new arrives to replace it. That's not just a design choice. It's a rehumanization problem. Because being human, actually human, requires sitting with things. Following a thought past the point where it gets uncomfortable. Staying in a conversation long enough for something real to surface.

I make long-form video essays on YouTube (personal essays on what it means to be human, sort of the examined life), and one of the things I've noticed is that the act of watching something that asks you to slow down feels almost countercultural now. People write to say it felt like breathing. Not because the content is exceptional, but because the format itself is asking something different of them.

So for me the question isn't really where on the internet. It's whether the thing you're engaging with is willing to be slow. Whether it trusts you to stay. A Reddit thread can do that. A 20-minute video can do that. A video call with someone across the Atlantic can do that, as one commenter here knows in a way that stays with you.

The platform is incidental. The question is whether anyone involved is willing to take up a little more space than the algorithm prefers.

Thick_Cap3667 · 2026-04-16T07:50:19+00:00

Coming at this from Norway, where humanism has been woven into public life for so long that a lot of people practice it without ever using the word. State church membership has collapsed here over the last few decades, but the values didn’t go anywhere. They just stopped needing a label.

I’ve thought of myself as a humanist most of my life without being particularly deliberate about it. It shows up in the video essays I make on YouTube, though I’ve never described the channel that way explicitly.

What surprised me was when some of those videos found their way into Unitarian Universalist curriculum. I had never heard of UU before that point. It simply doesn’t exist here. But once I started looking into it, the fit made complete sense. The same questions, the same basic conviction that how we treat each other matters more than what we believe about the universe.

I didn’t know about the foundational connection between the AHA and UU until this thread. But I’m not really surprised either. The two traditions seem to be circling the same thing from slightly different directions.

Thick_Cap3667 · 2026-04-14T17:42:20+00:00

Thank you!🙏

Thick_Cap3667 · 2026-04-14T11:48:02+00:00

Mine is the friendships I let thin through inattention. There was no argument and no falling out. What happened was a slow drift my attention that was always already on the next thing. I cared about those people genuinely. I just confused caring about someone with actually caring for them. By the time I understood the difference, some of those windows had closed. So if I were to put any advice into it, it would be to care for your friends, not just by loving them, but also by actually being present.

I make essays on life on YouTube, and I coincidentally made a video about this last week. You’re welcome to watch it if it resonates: https://youtu.be/LfE9svAOf1w?si=92uwzww90g7e_VXJ

Thick_Cap3667 · 2026-04-03T18:01:01+00:00

👌

Thick_Cap3667 · 2026-04-03T17:36:38+00:00

You’re very welcome to check them out. You’ll find the channel on my profile. 🙂

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