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viewflation is some bullcrap man like wdym i gotta look in advanced mode to know what my "real" views are? (i don't even know if i always trust the "engaged" views to be the "real" views since sometimes it shows results that are pretty clearly wrong according to other factors. doesn't help that the current youtube studio is a buggy ai-coded mess.)

that said, as far as i'm concerned, view systems were kind of flawed even before this since they were still susceptible to stuff like viewbotting and all that. we bank a lot on views and yet in the end is any of it even "real"?

Happy birthday Hatsune Miku!!!!

Photo from some recent forest wandering :3

Today marks my 22nd birthday. To commemorate, I've released a special Patreon post that can be accessed by everyone, both members and non-members. Check it out below (no tiers required!):
https://www.patreon.com/guywithabluejacket/posts/special-birthday-167298030
That'll be all. Have a good rest of your day!

youtube decided to pointlessly change studio again for some reason and it's really throwing me off
like come on why did you have to do this?
just to give someone something to do?
probably not that actually considering these changes are probably the result of even more "vibe coding"
seems like just about everyday they wake up and choose violence against their own userbase

After a random surge in motivation, Jelly the Not-Fish 1.4 (and then 1.4.1 to fix a minor bug) has been released TODAY across TIC-80, Newgrounds, and Codeberg!

In this update, I've added a new character, Shelly (the Not-Fish), who for the time being is more or less a player skin, but in future updates may have unique mechanics. In addition, I've also added a shield powerup which allows the player to survive the impact of one bomb. The ability for shields to spawn, as well as the character you play as, can be toggled in the options menu.

If you decide to try it out, feedback for what I can improve in future versions is appreciated (but not mandatory)!

2 days ago, the first of the exclusive second monthly Patreon posts for the $5/month tier came out (that was a lot of words.) Check it out below (requires $5/month tier to access):
https://www.patreon.com/guywithabluejacket/posts/twice-stuff-166757139
From this month onwards, anyone who joins the new $5/month tier will have access to not only the monthly posts that the $3/month tier gets, but also their own exclusive second monthly posts with even more of the benefits the first ones provide. Additional benefits may be added to the new tier later on if I feel like there should be more.

I'll also promote my voice acting Fiverr gig again because a little more exposure is always helpful I suppose:
https://www.fiverr.com/tobias_keevers/voice-act-for-your-project-american-or-british-accent

That's all for now. Have a good rest of your day.

that really expensive power cable getting rerouted into a bronze age burial site all because the harry potter fandom wanted it to avoid the "grave" of someone who doesn't exist is proof that we should quit burying our dead and just eat them instead

3 days ago, the monthly Patreon post dropped, so here it is ($3/month tier or higher to access):
https://www.patreon.com/guywithabluejacket/posts/stuffus-augustus-166054849
In addition, a new $5/month tier has been introduced, which gives anyone who joins an exclusive second monthly post with more of the benefits the other one gives. The first of the $5/month posts will probably be posted sometime around August 16th. On other notes, my birthday is on the 21st, so expect a freebie post around that time.

Also going to promote my voice acting Fiverr gig again because why not:
https://www.fiverr.com/tobias_keevers/voice-act-for-your-project-american-or-british-accent
I've kind of been reminded that I should probably release more of my own productions involving voice acting, not merely to prop up this gig but because voice acting is fun and I'd like to do more of it. I've kind of already released a few things involving that in recent months, and I hope to continue doing so.

That's all for now. Thanks for reading, and have a good rest of your day.

Hi PMC!
Some recent event IRL led me to big changes. Unfortunately, I have to put my Minecraft projects into a hiatus (a pause). My absence should be effective from now on, to june 2027, with no guarantee to return...
I hope I'll find a way. Until then, take care!

today's my dad's birthday, so here's a simple animation to mark the occasion

i sometimes feel like i'm on some kind of sliding scale that goes from criticizing a specific kind of person to being the specific kind of person i've been criticizing

i consider minecraft my favorite game but for some reason i can't bring myself to get into over half of whatever the minecraft community is doing
like no i didn't watch the new season of whateversmp and i don't know if i care enough to
heck i didn't even watch the first season
also what the heck is a "verity" and what do you mean that's what the yellow smiley face is associated with now?
i still associate the yellow smiley face with those weird glaggleland memes from about five years ago
one of the only modern minecraft series i actually keep up with is a regect and that's because i think it's funny
also because retrogamingnow introduced me to it and i love that guy's videos
most other things are just like, you know, they're there, and maybe they're better than i think because i haven't actually interacted with them properly, but i just can't motivate myself to look into them

and before anyone says i'm a "boomer" or whatever, i should say for the record i didn't necessarily watch a lot of older minecraft youtube either because (lore drop) i didn't exactly grow up watching a lot of youtube (well not independently anyway)
the main og minecraft youtube thing i watched when i was a kid was element animation (an egg's guide to minecraft and villager news)
and then some others but either a) no one else knows their name or b) i don't even remember their name

Realms of Redemption is now on 1.21.1!

https://www.planetminecraft.com/mod/realms-of-redemption/

really exhausting when a video gets taken down because some ai dmca program thinks royalty-free music isn't royalty-free, so you have to directly message the support team and say "yeah actually it is royalty-free" so the video can go back up.
kind of didn't think i'd run into this issue with dailymotion of all places. like, my introductory video with a kevin macleod song from 2009 is bad because a random ai says so but those pirated star trek and doctor who episodes are fine?
oh yeah i have a dailymotion btw. i'm mainly gonna use it as a secondary video backup/archive of sorts (primary archive is on the internet archive of course), though tbh this whole experience has kind of put a bad taste in my mouth. if more things like this end up happening down the line i might have to jump ship to another platform for secondary archival.

time for the monthly stuff promotion
here's this month's patreon post ($3/month tier to access):
https://www.patreon.com/guywithabluejacket/posts/stuffmerica-163294378
and here's my voice acting fiverr gig again:
https://www.fiverr.com/tobias_keevers/voice-act-for-your-project-american-or-british-accent
that's all

paramount plus is such a dogwater streaming service like it's so buggy for no reason
apparently it might get absorbed into hbo max because of that merger thing
idk if that'll make it better or worse
and then there's like some political stuff or something that it's caught up in but i won't get into all that here
bottom line is uh.. idk paramount's crappy or something
their physical media releases aren't always that great either because they're all bunched up in a way that i feel like i'm at risk of breaking one or more of the discs
if you've bought a dvd collection of a star trek series or something like that then you know what i'm talking about most likely

The bogged join the army of Better Vanilla Mobs ! Be aware, this toxic guy might stab you in your back!