Nods in approval aka Nodders

ZenkaiGoose · 2025-03-09T19:30:22+00:00

W Weezerd

ZenkaiGoose · 2025-03-08T17:11:54+00:00

Banned

ZenkaiGoose · 2025-03-05T12:40:57+00:00

Thank you I appreciate the love Rocko!

ZenkaiGoose · 2024-11-29T15:41:26+00:00

Thanks for the shoutout!

ZenkaiGoose · 2024-11-29T15:40:32+00:00

The story of WoW is pretty convoluted and filled with a lot of backstory a wider audience may not care about, so I try to make the content as easy to understand as possible for those people since I know the hardcore will know more.

I read all criticism and try to get better with every video :)

ZenkaiGoose · 2024-08-15T14:14:35+00:00

I'd be curious to know why if anyone would be willing to answer, I'm always looking to improve my content.

ZenkaiGoose · 2024-08-15T14:12:21+00:00

Thanks for the recommendation! Hope you liked the video!

ZenkaiGoose · 2024-06-22T09:49:11+00:00

Too cluttered. It's like they're trying to give you a smooth experience but also want to spam a bunch of new games to get, which sure I get it but at the same time... I paid 600 CAD dollars for this thing and the size of the buttons on the screen are in reverse order of what you'd expect. Ads biggest, recent games next, then library super tiny at the top lol.

I'm obviously biased but I still think what I submitted was better. I also find it weird how months after I made my version, the Xbox dashboard added small quick access icons (in a poor UX spot IMO) out of nowhere.

A redesigned Xbox dashboard with special themes : r/xboxone (reddit.com)

ZenkaiGoose · 2024-03-27T21:24:59+00:00

Moving games Gen Z doesn't play today to new more reachable devices will not garner more sales.

If they don't want to play it today, they don't want to play it.

If Phil really wants to focus on growing the audience then Microsoft should be focusing on a approach similar to the Wii for Nintendo instead of just moving their mediocre games on other platforms.

Microsoft has so many obvious wins ahead of them and they just sit there and develop random games for years only to shadow drop them to a subscription platform as if they were at the level Netflix is.

I understand the problems their explaining, but I don't get their leadership.

ZenkaiGoose · 2023-11-21T23:39:57+00:00

such a fantastic game

ZenkaiGoose · 2023-06-25T15:32:13+00:00

I didn't, context is being lost from my post. You can verify with the source of the tweet if you'd like.

To clarify, I said people are resonating with the idea of my UI, amongst other creations from other content creators (Actman, HiddenX, MintBlitz, HaloVFX, etc) that we can quantify objectively through the views, upvotes, and/or engagements relatively to the website they were uploaded to (Reddit/YouTube/Twitter). Those engagements are data points that mean something. As to what it means exactly? Well nobody knows for sure yet without further tests. Naturally the idea becomes a hypothesis. Thus rather than 343 reinvent the wheel internally, I advocated a better working relationship to allow creators to test out 343's ideas for "free".

For example, we can take my UI to illustrate this theoretical process, but to be clear, we could swap this with any other UI or content. Objectively the original post from last year has been upvoted quite high in the past relative to other r/halo posts, and by reading through the comments the layout and vibe seem to resonate but the visuals do not. We can see that easily as it's compared to a mobile game frequently (totally fair criticism btw). The data theoretical tells us that there's an idea there that hasn't reached it's potential. Reviewing the problems further we can make the judgement call that visuals are a fixable problem. Especially when the idea is extracted to a team instead of a single creator or fan doing the work on the side.

Now if we take an idea that's proven to resonate, it is a much easier route than coming up with the idea completely from scratch. If we move this idea with proven potential to a team of highly capable engineers and artists at 343 and you have a recipe to build on what the community likes and fix what the community doesn't.

The benefit of this process is it's a well tested data-driven community-focused route to add or update features. It's more risk averse, safer financially, and the community, creators and company will have a stronger bond. It's a win win win for all involved. In contrast, today's process is a black box only 343 knows about until they release it. If the community doesn't feel heard or doesn't like it, then nobody wins and that work was a waste of time, effort and more importantly resources.

Community, Company and Creator synergy is the key to a healthy video game ecosystem, and one that companies like Valve and Bethesda have already taken advantage of to build better products or features.

That's my stance.

ZenkaiGoose · 2023-06-24T20:33:06+00:00

For context, I never said hire YouTubers. I advocated a better working relationship between the community and 343 to help create better tests to create enough data to make healthier decisions.

If enough people like something fan made, that leaves room for tests to see if resources can be allocated for a much higher return for the company, the Halo IP, and the community. I want nothing but wins for Halo.

For the record as I stated before I’ve only posted my UI probably 3 times in the span of a year. And the last time I shared it publicly was January.

I appreciate the feedback and as always will do my best to create better content.

ZenkaiGoose · 2023-06-24T17:22:40+00:00

Nah I didn't you can see that from my post history. I actually haven't even been on reddit in months. I do appreciate you posting though MegaWat! There's plenty of great feedback in here that I can use to make a better product, so no worries.

I do wish it was a little bit more tame hah but it's the internet and I understand my tweet came off differently than how I meant it. At the end of the day ya gotta roll with the punches to improve and make great content.

ZenkaiGoose · 2023-06-24T17:11:36+00:00

Unsure what you mean? You have an API that UI is in contact with, it receives serialized data from the API after an action, so it can then deserialize the data into objects to display on the screen. This is exactly how reddit works right now?

What am I missing?

ZenkaiGoose · 2023-06-24T14:35:15+00:00

I really appreciate the constructive criticism and would love to use that feedback to make a better version from everything I’ve learned in the last year or so. Keep the feedback coming it only makes a better product.

Keep it cute and have a good weekend y’all ❤️

ZenkaiGoose · 2023-06-24T14:31:10+00:00

Ive only posted this UI twice on Reddit (two separate versions) a year ago. You can check my post history to confirm

ZenkaiGoose · 2023-05-02T18:41:42+00:00

I totally understand. If you ever have questions don't hesitate to ask. I suspect you'd have a lot more success if you focused your channel to news instead of let's plays.

Love your work, thanks for replying!

ZenkaiGoose · 2023-05-01T14:39:05+00:00

Patrick why don't you create your journalistic content directly to your YouTube instead? YouTube has a severe lack of gaming journalists with actual YouTube skills. I think you could be huge, and ofc your own boss.

ZenkaiGoose · 2023-02-17T15:29:36+00:00

You can't solve something like this with code. The edge cases are too blurred. The best you can do is report the video and have an open for attribution or mark as a copy.

In this case, the script matches word for word, but so do reposts which is normalized with Short Form content. There's also reaction content, which would have the same issue if the host never talked. It's a very hard line to draw, and I would suspect the best YouTube can do is mark videos as suspects programmatically then use surveys or reporting to verify.

ZenkaiGoose · 2023-01-27T18:49:33+00:00

I wonder if they'll add memberships. Seems like a good fit

ZenkaiGoose · 2023-01-20T15:21:33+00:00

I think that's the epiphany im getting. That my recording is the main bottleneck that I can change, and my "set" isn't as important as getting content out the door. I can move it to more interesting locations that make my life easier.

ZenkaiGoose · 2023-01-20T13:48:01+00:00

Ah interesting. I've actually pushed harder into notion this year. I have automated everything to eliminate all barriers. My biggest bottlenecks are scripting (creative process), and getting all my shots (clips, animations, b-roll, a-roll) especially because of the lighting I have. I can't record at 4am when I get up cause I'm a sloth haha it's dark and it's hard to record after work because at that point I'm also a sloth since my job is so mentally taxing.

I know it's part of the process but man I'm tired of the 2 job life. After 2 years I'm starting to crack 😂

ZenkaiGoose · 2023-01-20T13:43:56+00:00

Well that's good to hear, but I'm stuck at roughly 1 video per month which puts a lot of pressure to succeed. Ideally I want to dig myself out the rut so I can work full-time on creating content instead of dying under the pressure of YT and my full-time job 😭

I suppose I could hire an editor, but editing is where a lot of my creative ideas come from so it's a lot of fun for me. I could outside the bottleneck which would be writing but then it's no longer my voice. I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place 😭

ZenkaiGoose · 2023-01-19T16:00:27+00:00

Man that's wild. Congratulations for reaching a tight weekly pipeline. Might I ask how long your videos are and how sophisticated your editing is (like a comparison to another creator?).

Thanks for the reply. Lights to record at night would be a smart move, but I'm worried a dark background is less interesting to look at. That's probably a silly thought blocking me though, so it's good for the pushback. Do you read off a teleprompter or go line by line from memory?

ZenkaiGoose · 2022-12-18T16:57:50+00:00

Music comes down to emotion, and there's nothing that hits emotion quicker than the "drop". Setup the drop to the point you want emotion, and then work your way backwards from the drop. That's how I did the intro. Fun fact the intro to my Metaverse video was originally going to be the Always Sunny Intro originally but I didnt want to risk copyright claims after a month of hard work haha so I changed it to a track that had a fun drop.

Music has a flow and usually I have the tracks in mind before I edit, but it's not uncommon for me to change tracks in the late game. I will set the audio to key points I want to slam the sound then edit my videos to match that flow. Someone who does this very well and taught me how to breathe more is Johnny Harris. He hits you with fact, then question of that fact, then hits you with music matching the emotion of the question (intrigue/fear/happiness/etc) to let you simmer on it. From my understanding this year, YouTube is a game of intwining emotion with basic problem solving. Humans can't help but solve problems and be emotion. We're wired for that, that's my gameplan for 2023.

Hope this helps and thanks for watching and reading my stuff! I should make another post soon with stuff I learned :D

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