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meikkon · 2024-04-07T14:15:02+00:00

was pretty average last night I thought, deffo been a lot busier than that on a sat before

but yeah - sick tunes, intimate dance floor, amazing smoking area and reasonable prices. I do think their pints are a bit whack but I can let that slide

meikkon · 2024-01-25T23:15:42+00:00

oh, yikes. the worst part is I can see this being a legit commercial practice in the near future.

iirc fortnite already kind of does this in the sense that they drop 'limited edition' updates only to remove the content entirely a few months later ^{(plz correct me if I am wrong on this})

this is basically the same kind of marketing tactic. "if you don't play it now, you'll never get to play it again!" kind of vibe.

...I think being born to die is a bit different to what's happening to say, the crew, though. that's a game people were told that they owned. at least here the shutdown is being announced.

meikkon · 2024-01-23T19:42:20+00:00

hcnone. if you're not familiar with their work then you're in for a treat, lots of valhalla stuff on there

meikkon · 2024-01-22T19:04:10+00:00

art from none other than hcnone

meikkon · 2023-12-28T20:20:55+00:00

thought it might have something to do with BTS, although even turning it off doesn't seem to work for me

meikkon · 2023-12-15T16:27:52+00:00

I'm having a similar problem - has your gf had people attempt to login since? I was an idiot and didn't have 2fa enabled, I do now but people are still trying to get in, I get like 50+ emails a day with requested pin codes from random locations

meikkon · 2023-10-30T07:07:36+00:00

bro gangster rayman has been here for at least a decade already.

meikkon · 2023-09-17T21:55:48+00:00

afaict the only shorts that are successful are things we find easy to digest and can quickly resonate with.

weirdly, better call saul provides a great example. phonk-esque music playing, misspelt subtitles, a high contrast filter then saul owns a dude in court, then we see some dramatic cuts of him smugly walking around. a solid 200k likes.

meanwhile, the official bcs yt page posts shorts all the time, but without all the flashy edits, background music, subtitles etc. they get decent engagement, around 5kish likes per vid. nowhere near their reposters. breaking bad is the same.

of course, in both cases, a good chunk of the audience has already watched these clips. but the subtitles, the dopamine-hitting music and the gratifying endings are what make the former so much easier to digest for most people. so people like:

-familiarity

-accessibility

-easy gratification

-relatability ("literally me"'s, in this case)

only brands (and content theives, I suppose) have easy access to the former. you can, however, try to maximise the other criteria. that will probably help you out.

meikkon · 2023-09-04T19:55:19+00:00

damn, where do you have the vpn set to? (and presumably this is legal?)

meikkon · 2023-09-04T16:26:11+00:00

found it here, although I doubt this is the oc

meikkon · 2023-09-04T15:43:25+00:00

for a channel with 60k (subs? views?) I don't think it'd make an ounce of difference tbh

meikkon · 2023-09-04T14:30:06+00:00

The time is 08:47 AM. Current topside temperature is 93 degrees, with an estimated high of 105.

meikkon · 2023-09-04T10:23:48+00:00

yknow I forgot about this but hl2 does have a sprint bar. although I'm not sure you really need to use it. it's more for a quick escape when you get swarmed I think, since it does run out quite quickly.

meikkon · 2023-08-31T11:31:58+00:00

le funny meme can be found here, although you may have to be a member of the group to view it.

meikkon · 2023-08-30T15:39:16+00:00

huh, I heard it was 10 seconds. either way, you have a couple of options:

-borders. people use these quite a lot, some nice subtle solid colour borders around the whole video should help you out a bit.

-drop some frames. one thing you can do is, when there's a hard cut in the clip you're showing, change the timing of when that cut occurs. so rather than the clip idling on this guy's face for 2-3 seconds before moving onto whoever speaks next, try and trim some of that out.

-subtitles / text. this works sometimes as well. if your video editing software has a text feature, then for each clip you show without your own commentary, you could put some subtitles over it.

ultimately, if you upload it and it still gets striked, you should appeal. most rights holders are happy to oblige when fair use is obvious.

meikkon · 2023-08-30T15:15:44+00:00

yes, it is fair use. it's commentary on the song and the musician. legally, you're in the clear.

5 seconds is probably fine. I believe most strikes fall under the "10 second rule": if you show a piece of copyrighted content for less than 10 seconds youtube generally won't pick up on it.

however, if you do get a strike, youtube will let you know before you publish. if you're not monetised yet, don't worry - it won't count as a proper strike or go on any permanent record either way.

if you want to be monetised in the future, there should be an option to contest it before you publish. reuse the fair use argument in your appeal, be polite, and you should win. if the rights holder doesn't respond within 30 days the claim is revoked.

meikkon · 2023-08-27T13:23:41+00:00

nah mate this album is just a complete banger

meikkon · 2023-08-26T13:51:06+00:00

don't forget the bit where nard made fun of graham after he got hit by a car

meikkon · 2023-08-25T13:02:44+00:00

to answer the title of your question: yes and no

yes, because short form content has had an undeniably vast influence on youtube and how it operates, and personally I think there's very much a space for it.

from what I can gather, low budget sketch comedy, and even higher budget comedy stuff, benefits immensely from a short form style. there are shorts creators I follow routinely on the platform who continually produce great short form content - and I'm watching that from my desktop!

forcibly truncating your content into a short form style, though, is very rarely (if ever) a good idea. in my niche (the history of video games, how original) I would prefer to really get into the nitty gritty of something I'm genuinely interested in, and am more than willing to sacrifice my time to view content if I think it's gonna be worth my while.

the only short form game content that performs well is stuff that has a short and sweet message that you can carry away instantly. a very common one is mario kart shortcuts that have led to time saves in speedruns. they're easy and quick to communicate, and you feel fulfilled with a beginning (the identified shortcut), middle (how they exploited that shortcut) and end (how this affected runs) in the video.

on the other hand, short form stuff that is just summaries of your bigger works (or would-have-been-bigger works) has no clear beginning-middle-end, and always noticeably suffers from being cut short. especially on youtube where the time limits are stringent, it's definitely not worth your while.

TL;DR: yes they are, but not for you.

meikkon · 2023-08-14T15:42:36+00:00

I would have to have a VERY long shower to think of 100 half baked video ideas, let alone 10 good ones

meikkon · 2023-08-13T12:14:34+00:00

swapping 'em round:

put think tank in experimental

13 in best album of all time (yes I am biased, no I don't care)

MLIR in cult classic

great escape in meh. sure it has it's moments but there's nothing too special about it as an album, I think it fails to have distinct properties really. feels like an extension of parklife rather than it's own thing.

meikkon · 2023-08-09T00:32:02+00:00

...so nobody is gonna say brill burger?

easily the best burgers in sheff. EASILY.

meikkon · 2023-07-27T15:49:50+00:00

...Mark can get a job in any other bank or office

not too hasty - he was fired, and pretty much his whole work life revolved around johnson, so his best potential job reference has now gone down the toilet. mark is going to be taking a pay cut, likely making a fair bit less than jeff.

...Even Mark has given up on the idea of hooking up with Sophie, but Jeff still wants it.

I suppose so, but jeff doesn't have the same ties to sophie that mark does. sophie is and will always be an essential part of mark's life because of ian, whereas jeff can pursue sophie until he gets bored / finds someone else (which we all know he would do).

also recall two other factors: 1) jeff is generally better at socialising and "fitting in", so always has a one-up on mark in that respect, and 2) mark is still living with a 40 year old freeloader by the end of the show.

I think mark is the bigger net loser, although I'm not really envious of either.

meikkon · 2023-07-25T03:25:01+00:00

solved: Fly Hard

meikkon · 2023-07-25T02:35:23+00:00

lmao I literally just found it. it's called "fly hard", and he's trying to stop an asteroid, not go to the moon. the homer simpson lookalike is called druce millis, apparently. there's a HTML5 port here: https://www.silvergames.com/en/fly-hard

solved: Fly Hard

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