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Cool finds! I have found some of my favorite books ever from thrift shops.

Man I honestly thought you're vsauce based on the thumbnail 😭

Even though you are going about this manga first you should consider reacting to certain anime episodes without reading the manga counterpart beforehand. There are spcific episodes in AOT that are routinely being searched for when it comes to reaction content, and it would likely make for a better viewing experience regardless. I could tell you what the episodes are if you want.

It's great! So long as i can see your reaction and get your thoughts, it's good. Thankfully for me, i can follow by reading my own volume.

So glad your continuing your AOT run Currently reading the manga myself first time after I finished the anime

I love your videos. I hope you're OK

I picked up Joe Hill's N0S4A2 last year as a Christmas read just because of one detail mentioned in the synopsis, so I didn't expect much. Afterwards I was left speechless. The best way I can describe it is if Stephen King didn't slow down with his late 80s early 90s horror writing binge but it somehow blended in nicely with today's world as the Stand did with the late 70s and It did with the late 80s. N04A2 was amazing and gives you everything you'd want from old Stephen King without feeling like Joe Hill copied his dad. It was so good I flew through the last 260 pages in one day.

OK - but can you slow down your speech a little bit!🙂

Great library. Plenty there to keep you out of mischief! Best wishes and happy reading.

I love thrift shop books! I liked The Road. Could not get into Blood Meridian.

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I found AI is a great at improving Orwellian prose, making sentences clearer and more readable. It's also good in breaking information into chunks and slotting those chunks into easy to follow paragraphs. What it's terrible at is authentic voice, artistry and subtext. AI is a great learning tool, but it doesn't use language to express an inner world. It can therefore never replace you.

Didn't you say you weren't going to do any more hauls bc of the prices in that one comment or something? Man is suffering from afflictions like a Darkest Dungeon character fr, go to the Abby and cleanse that shit XD. Gonna buy more books than you'll be able to read through. At least you'll be able to eat them if the end of the world happens or something. Hey, I have LOTR book myself, although just the Fellowship of the Ring, I needed a book for the university task years ago. Mine is the 2012 print tho, although I bought it somewhere in 2019-2020. Need to re-read (and finish) it, since reading for an assignment with deadline and reading for yourself are COMPLETELY different things, precisely the reason my passion for books died during school years and didn't resurface until graduation year. IDK where the actual book is, the small bookshelf is shared between my crap and my baby brother's school supplies, so it's a mess to find anything there. I'll trust the Goodreads with the print year info😅. And man, I peeped the Harry Potter books while I was looking up the print year, and the covers gave me so much nostalgia, cuz my books no longer have them, got them since before I even got into school, it's just 4 binds of pages since my mom only bought me the first 4 books as a kid😔. one of these days I'll hopefully buy new ones with the same print. Certainly take integrity of books much more seriously as an adult, the 2nd Honkai art book is STILL sealed in the see-through thingie, did cave in and looked through the first one when the country had struggles with power supply this Summer to kill time, it's longer than I excpected. Did found a Houkai 3rd Visual FanBook on Amazon by chance, while in JP only, seems to have art not included in the ones I have (it's from 2018 so either before or just around when they launched the game for non-Asian countries) I believe (maybe some of it is in 2nd one, but I wouldn't know).could be worth getting and translating yourslef, seems to have early story synopses and character descriptions, I think based on "act 1,2" etc sections of the text. The more videos like this you make, the more I remember stuff I used to read. I remember re-reading one book a lot back as a kid, The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne. The only things I remember really, are author's name bc I as a kid found it really funny how his name sounds like julienne, the food, an illustration of an island and a monkey called Jup, the rest is completely blank so I'd be re-reading it basically blind if I get it, I don't think we have the book anymore. Apperantly the other story I read, 20k leagues under the seas, is also by the same author which is news to me, but I don't remember jack from the story as it was also part of the study corriculum and it was used in the English class to learn english (it was a basically a booklet, so not a complete story, just exceprts), rather than actually work on the story. Read something picking up Jack London from grandpa's book collection at some point but idk what it was. Some of the other stuff I actually read that was required by a uni, and not just know the synopsys off through attending class, is Beowulf which I remember liking at the time tho I think I only read the "Part 1" of the story, so to speak, before the time-skip bc you have a time limit for renting the books from the uni library, I believe. I did originally go into books from school years in this paragraph, but that only went on to unearth some repressed memories of me not fitting in with what the school wanted from kids or society in general, which I decided to erase from this comment for everyone's sake, so about 75% of the comment. I've save the tragic backstory/ schizo anger rant on how I hate school system and government and so on and so forth, for Class of 09 let's play if that happens, where it'd actually be fitting. THEN things might get unfiltered, mask off even... To close it off on a positive note, definitely not using these vids to fill in my to-read list haha 😏. Maybe I'll add your ass on Goodreads just to see what are you up to and compare your reviews to my opinion, if you post them that is, I've had the account for a while myself but did absolutely nothing with it since I forgot. IDK if I'll ever post any reviews or score on there, as I am actually pretty self-concious 😳(something tells me you wouldn't have this impression of me based on occassional sus comments on YT or our DMs, and there is certainly a lot you DON'T get to see of me on other people's content and spaces XD, not that I ever show true colors to anyone), so posting on a normie space would be difficult.

In my country, it’s actually difficult to access thrift stores, but this is like so cool! I wish I could go there too! Are you gonna read those on your channel soon? :)

From using AI myself, Gemini AI is apparently allergic to politics and always insist on unnecessary questionaires of my story for my experience using it for some time. I think Gemini AI for me is better as a juiced up searching engine rather than a collaborator.

It's funny that this video appeared today for me. Yesterday I was using ChatGPT to help me get some ideas for building my story. To give you a bit of context, when I was a teenager I had this (non original) idea writing books about some kids with elemental powers fighting the forces of evil. Though it may seem similar to Avatar, it was mostly inspired by Digimon. Anyway, this week I decided to get back to this story, but wanted to expand on it. I asked a bunch of questions to ChatGPT about it. For example: what would be some interesting passive and active abilities of people with elemental powers? How about their weaknesses? How do the elements relate to their own personalities in a symbolic way? What if "aether" was an element too? It was very good to have this conversation, because it brought many condensed topics that I wouldn't otherwise have thought of if I was just searching these topics on Google. Yes, it's a limited tool, and it can bring false information, but I think it's great to be able to expand on multiple ideas in this speed and in an organic way

Hey good video. I'm in the same boat as you and have used multiple versions of AI to come to the conclusion that it's not easy to get anything good out of AI, but if you give it something good, it can help you make it better. With the latest version of Chat GPT 4o I feel that it is at a point where it can be helpful to writers. I haven't used Claude but used Sudowrite and I dislike the output that it gives and the structure you are bound to within it. I dig the latest version of GPT and use it help craft stories that are more "me" than AI. The aversion to it in the community just has me feeling that people are missing the point of AI, like AI is not going to replace human writing, but it can help make human writing better. I have a large family, work a regular job, and now with AI have to potential to work on multiple stories at once and it's encouraging as a creative. I don't feel like it's cheating because it's my ideas, and my words, and the AI is just helping expand on that, helping to give life to something I would otherwise become stuck on. Where it really shines is non-fiction or if you want to add some depth by adding statistics to your writing. Looking forward to more videos from you.

Thank you for making this video. Like you, I have more years behind me than ahead of me and AI has accelerated my writing process. I've also been making the argument that an AI co-author gets you that first draft faster. As all writers know, the first draft is garbage. So why not use AI to help write your 'garbage' draft? The purpose of the first draft is for you to see the 'shape' of the story and have a blueprint for writing the real story. As you point out, the human element comes in the many (sooo many) edits and revisions. For people who don't like AI and don't want to use it, that's OK. What's not OK is the constant gatekeeping. You brought up how 'real' artists felt when digital art was new. The same thing happened in photography when digital cameras became affordable to the average consumer. I'm old enough to remember when Word Processing Computers (and then PCs and Word Processing software) were new and 'real' writers denigrated anyone who didn't use a typewriter (this article about the AMSTRAD is full of the same arguments you hear from the anti-AI crowd today. www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/28/how-amstrad-word-processor-encouraged-writers-use-computers ) I hear a lot of fence sitters say it's OK to use AI for spelling and grammar check things. When those were introduced, they were controversial too. 'Real' writers were up in arms that writing was too easy for wannabe writers if they didn't have to spend years memorizing vocabulary and grammar rules.

I've tried AI writing enough to know that is relies on "as you know" dialogue, does not understand subtext and is allergic to themes. To write even a passable script with AI, you would have to prompt it with so much details on the world, the characters, etc. that at that point you realise you've written the script yourself

Attack on Titan is Isayama's first serialized manga, he did the first one-shot around 2006-ish when he was 19 and then got chapter 1 published on 2009 when he was 22. He was a pretty young and inexperienced artist by that point and i think it sort of reflects in the art of the early volumes. With the off looking proportions and perspective.

Whoa you have an incredible book and magazine collection. I am so jealous.

I use AI to make funny pictures and I was tempted to see if it'd translate the goofy randomness to text but it's really not worth it. It's useful as a research assistant. I like being able to actually talk to something when trying to do research on something obscure because Google is close to useless and only ques up results from irrelevant sources that just paid to be at the top of the page and I got better things to do than cut through thousands of listicle sites that might not even be valid. Though telling it to rewrite something "in the style of x" and seeing what happens is kinda funny. Nothing practical. Could probably be used to edit as well. Just doesn't seem efficient enough. Sorta like how you don't trust spellcheck to automatically correct everything in a document. You still have to go through manually. The problem people have is that they immediately have this knee jerk assumption that you wrote the ENTIRE text with AI and did no work.

While I can see where people come from in terms of AI, and I do share some of the concerns, for good reasons (much more realistic deepfakes, AI voices, AI video generating/editing tools can easily get out of control and used for malice once they develop far enough to no longer have blatant artifacts and shortcomings), but other than that I'd say it's just a typical cycle of new innovative thing getting the hate (like when people hated car seat belts back in the day, although I guess they still do so maybe not the most accurate example), but it'll eventually somewhat die . Also, people complain about it, yet they still use so many features and gadgets that use AI so it's kinda silly too, even if the concerns are not unfounded. At the end of the day, a machine is only as smart as it's creator. It, by definition, cannot out perform you in every task, it needs the guiding hand to coax it to get onto the right track, which takes time and effort, with shaky reliability. AI has limited memory, while humans have multiple types of it, so so if you forget, you'll have an easier time remembering or doing a task through a complex internal system, while if AI forgets or that chat is deleted - it's gone and it needs to be re-trained from zero. I'd say it would require a massive network of AI backing up another AI and so on and so forth just to match the capability of a human, at least as close as possible, so that's that for the "they took our jobs!"(in the most redneck voice possible) argument. Also, certified 1st world problem, ngl. The AI revolution, however does provide a new wave of opportunities, and I feel like people and businesses need to key in on this factor rather than JUST be on the defensive about it. Since we've established it takes time, effort and skill to manipulate the AI, it offers a potential AI Operator/Developer jobs where applicable, while some jobs completely exclude AI involment. There is PLENTY of AI artists of Pixiv that I follow, to a point where I can tell which model they are using bc there is so many with the same artstyle. People that, probably, wouldn't be artist and making money from commissions otherwise if not for AI. That's just the tip of it, with the editing thing you're using and other implimentations. For me, AI usage has been indispensable. It's a great multi-purpose tool that, while can be utterly wrong, helped me out a lot. Want to look up a thing? Ask AI instead of browsing ad-ridden tracker and forced cookie-filled websites (great for gaming related inquiries ngl, saves time looking at the right YT video or article, used it SO much during Persona it's crazy, and some other games). Want a recommendation? Ask AI to give you a list of things or keep track of them. Want to translate a screenshot (me playing Asian-only region gacha games on the Android emulator be like)? AI does it. Why spend hours watching an outdated tutorial on a game engine, watch even more videos that tell you not to watch tutorial videos, if you can just ask AI "how do I do this in X engine" and just work on your game and learn in real time (there is even an AI tool that makes 3D models based on image submitted, customizable too. Crazy stuff.). Want to lock-in on a character design or help brainstorm it at least, just generate an image so you don't forget what it's meant to look like (this is huge for me, as I don't always have a concrete idea on what my characters look sometimes and watching different shows or anime alters the way they look in my head so I forget the initial design), and of course the general writing brainstorming purposes. TL;DR people think Terminator when AI is involved, and while partially true depending on what your issue is, in reality it's still closer to Iron Man. Jarvis doesn't replace Tony Stark, and a multi-billionare genius still chooses to rely on an assistant despite being capable of doing a lot of that same work himself. Heck, Einstein said we need to make things as simple as possible, so I don't see why we shouldn't use tools available to us to simplify the mundane and frustrating acts of life, so we can have that spare time to pursue more meaningful growths. Or just kick back and relax and have fun, that works too I guess. And yeah, the whole -bros culture is cringe. Techbros, hustlebros, you name them. They are too deep in the sauce, and not just for the same reasons you mentioned.

Awesome! can't wait for volume 4

WAIT, 2021??? there's no way, it feels like it wasn't even that long ago.. turns out "to you 2000 years from now" was about the manga itself this whole time... Isayama knew it all from the get-go, that you'd put it aside and return, years later. He planned it all. Really makes me remember my time with the AoT video game, ngl. Never got around playing the 2nd game, but the first one was pretty fun, they really nailed the ODM gear traversal from what I remember. Maybe if you ever get around Fullmetal too, I'll cave in and play the questionable PS2 game, God knows it's on my list. Tho questionable quality is still better than just having uninspired fighting games imo.

Can't wait for your journey!

Good haul.

As can be seen, I changed the Channel Name back to something more personal to support the more authentic angle I'd like to present on this channel. It's been a really twisty-turning journey in 2024! Can't wait to building up the channel now that I feel like it's "foundations" are established!

Ah, September to be read goal. Ngl I just thought you decided to spell September funny bc it didn't fit in the thumbnail. Makes me want to pick up a few new things myself or remember if I anything anything in my backlog, haha. Surely they haven't tripled in prices compared to the previous years, like everything else on the market, haha 😅. That Gothic Horror collection be looking might good tho, where the Lovecraft at tho 👀. Maybe one day we'll get good HPL games, the only 2 notable ones earned pretty mixed receptions. Call of Cthulhu Dark Corners of the Earth, while I never played it, I hear it falls into a trap of loosing the horror element by having ability to fight back, while Call of Cthulhu: The Game 2018 or whatever it's called, they changed the name a bit, was hella rushed, but at least does a decent job for most of the game and combines different H.P. mythos in one game, which is pretty cool. It's pretty amusing to see you try to work your way around describing the workings of world Xanth haha. You got wrapped up in so many ways of trying to imply things, that it made me doubt I was thinking the right thing or I'm just having weird thoughts, cause non of that stuff seems crazy to me so far. Maybe I've been in the sauce far too long. I guess I'll have to read and see for myself, the reviews on Goodreads go crazy between 1 for all the sexist stuff and average 4 for magic and world stuff. Quite a few people mention reading it just fine decades ago, like in high-school and stuff just fine, but on reread they are appalled. any plans for video game novelizations, like Assassin's Creed novels? Some of them are just novelization of the in-game story, but others add new perspectives to them or are backstories that don't include game spoilers. One of them combines all Altaiir stories, including AC: Bloodlines, obscure and forgotten PSP sort of sequel to AC1. Although like half of them are out of your reach, since you haven't gotten to those games. Really hoping for that Attack on Titan and Fullmetal goodness at some point!!!

man I love when internet has a hiccup when I send a comment, so it doesn't send, so I have to recreate it from memory. If I had money, I 100% would be a compulsive buyer. God help people who buy old manga series tho, back then longrunning was the meta, nowadays titles feel shorter even if they can be lengthy in their own right. Like, Naruto has 700 chapters, that's a lot of volumes. Jojo's been running since '87 and is still ongoing, crazy stuff. On a book related matter, wonder if yuo ever read or even know about Battle Lines, written by Jacob, one of Semblance of Sanity brother, if you are familiar with the reaction channel. During one of his Persona 4 streams The Dresden Files books came up in a convo, for some reason the fantasy-mystery detective setting made me think of the Lone Stranger XD.

Wow... I just got to page 100 (CH1-4) and I might be picking up on the reasons these books end up showing up in thrift stores on a regular basis... good lord! If you know what I'm getting at, the you know... you know?

Talking about schizo dreams... This is def something I can see happening in my dreams (maybe it happened to your dream years ago so you made a skit based on it?) Though, more often than not, when I was younger my "dreams" were just death-based nightmares. Like me being buried alive by an excavator, me being tied to a chair and someone slitting my throat, or the staircase collapsing under me, causing me to fall down 12 floors to the ground and more... That definitely goes into "Least traumatic Eastern European childhood" compilation 😂

full body Xei is not real, he can't hurt you. Meanwhile full body Xei: it's always so uncanny to see people in full height after watching them for years as just a head and shoulders, upper body at most. Waiting for the day you can afford to get through some of that reading material on camera. Attack on Titan be a little dusty, and I don't remember if you bought or only considered Fullmetal Alchemist. Tokyo Ghoul looks like it's not even touched, based on the transparent foil or film whatever it's called in English, and going with the manga over anime is the smartest choice one can make for this title (or a lot of the titles, really. Like, some of the classics like Naruto and Bleach get quite butchered by anime adaptations due to censorship, cut content or atrocious pacing/scene padding among other things. It's ever worse for Light Novel adaptations). Speaking of which, I don't know if you have any anime Light Novels, but you gotta branch out into the rabbit hole at some point, as a lot of the titles originate from there, before getting ported to manga and anime. I think it's interesting how LNs combine elements of both book and manga, by adding illustrations between walls of text every now and then. Not you dipping your toes into SCP lore 😭. It's one of those things, where the more you look into it, the more *IT* looks into you, y'know. Crazy passionate community. 19:50 "I wish it was longer" I see bro makes my jokes for me, huh. Already taken a screenshot for a meme. "That one went in a lot easier" ok, brothermans, are you sure you drank the right beer cuz that ain't Super Bock, more like Super Co-

damn that looks like a very nice home :D I do hope you will overcome your struggles and shit gets better :) thank you for this vlog it was great!

First goshdangit.

This whole spectral horse stuff and visuals really reminded me of that one time I was replaying Skyrim some years ago, specifically the one time I decided to ride my steed from Winterhold to Markath (basically from top right-most point in the map to bottom left-most) while trying to follow the paved road as strictly and intended as possible, no "Skyrim horse" parkour shenanigans, fast travel or shortcuts of any kind. I didn't even have any immediate business there, just wanted to do that. Took a while, but I ended up encountering a bunch of stuff I normally wouldn't have if I continued abusing the fast travel system, the best part of the journey included a headless ghost horseman, something I didn't even know was even in the game, and I've been playing since release day, so imagine how confused and excited I was. Which is insane, since he spawns at a random location every night, and I just so happened to run into him, both of us minding our own business. That encounter on my way down that specific road was one in I don't even know what chance, given his random spawn locations, but it sure became a core memory, for years to come.

Man, this makes me remember my own cowboy story I wanted to write some years ago, before kind of casting it away. It would have been about this old John Idlewood character, I think that was his name, a local legend past his prime, awaiting his execution. I think what I was going for is starting at the end, or "end", and the plot itself is a recalling of events that would catch up to the opening chapter, but I never made it past several paragraphs (a fate that befalls literally every story I start, exept one story, where I wrote like 7 chapters but all of that progress got retconned over the years due to changes in plot). I always hit some sort of a wall with my endeavors, which trigger my lack of commitment, forcing me to drop whatever it is I am doing. Be it technical reasons or lack of patience/skill issue but I always lose interest in the end. My resolution is to finish up those projects, in some way, shape or form. For writing specifically, putting things into words just feels so cringe, I really need to learn to channel the critic persona AFTER I finish the piece, instead of DURING the process which keeps demoralizing me😅. Now especially, since unlike years ago, there is AI to help me with the other problem of "okay, I got an idea and a vague setting/characters as well as Act 1 and 3, but no coherent Act 2 (the way I envision the process is there are dots aka milestones, but I don't have the lines connecting them figured out a lot of the time)". As for the story in the video: yup, definitely didn't expect this to take a whimsical turn with killer tumbleweeds concept (until they were mentioned more and more, I didn't even realize just how many there were on the picture, I only really percieved a few as I didn't expect anything supernatural), and even more weird twist with tumble weirds revealed to be alien creatures from beyond the abysmal depths and the Lone Stranger having an alien gun. Unless I missed the reveal the Spur is also an alien steed, I'd like to imagine it's just a normal animal, a literal donkey carrying the Drifter across space-time on some glorified Don Qijote business. And of course, the singular woman in the story is a redhead, I won't ever get tired of pointing this out🤣 Also, yeah, "tumble weeds, more like tumble WEIRDS"... you, sir, are on my hit list... and no I DEFINITELY, absolutely, didn't chuckle at that line, dunno what you are talking about😤

Virgin Zombie Crunch Culture enjoyer vs Sigma Chill Hobby Creator moment. I like when you said "It's contenting time!" and contented all over the place, just like the article said. I forgot how hard you tried to do the whole constant editing thing in this vid as part of the overall joke, my eyes were so confused for a moment. blud really thought he was Max0r for a minute there XD 1:50 ngl that highlighted text couldn't be any more relevant. Stressful events in a company setting? Bullying? Broken company hierarchy? Employees having to suck it up until they go over their limit? Thought we were talking about TH-cam (even though the article is about gaming and whatnot, don't matter), not Nijisanji. While Niji is reaping what they sow (like losing mad money despite Doki's termination officially described as 'negligible' by the company), hopefully YT will one day get a reality check massive enough for them to fix stuff (unlikely?). The only thing missing is stretching the video for the 10 minute mark, I remember that was something people used to do.

Wonder if there is going to be a chance to see Honkai and Genshin art books showcase at some point in the uncertain future. Nikke literally just announced the artbooks is in the works, so hopefully they'll give us a chance to play to win, and not just make it paid only.

I’ve been doing youtube for a few years now on various channels, and I have a few notes/pieces of advice. 1. When starting a channel, consistent branding is very important especially when you aren’t trying to reach a (very) specific niche because the returning viewers may determine what groups youtube recommends your videos to. When these viewers all come from different videos on your channel youtube doesn’t have enough data to understand who to recommend a new video to. 2. Because your channel doesnt seek out a niche, your videos wont be prioritized over others. If youtube knows for a fact that other videos in a highly saturated niche perform slightly better consistently, It has no reason to promote these videos. 3. You bring up many relevant points in this video, but from this video I’ve gained the impression that you feel like if you reached your intended audience that you would do better. This is a mindset I had at one point but when I gave up on this philosophy and instead told myself that my videos weren’t performing because my videos didn’t exceed the current standards I began to succeed.

YT algorithm try not to be disfunctional challenge (impossible). My "favorite" thing is how your GGZ videos have more views (upto several hundred and the GGZ reaction playlist thingy being almost 2k views, which I swear last time I've seen it wasn't that big) than HI3 (barely several dozen, outisde the initial reaction videos that did really well) on average. YT really out here trying to tell me that the game had no audience compared to an even more older obscure game? Makes no sense. Reminds me of ArtemisLuna's channel, who does Hoyo games and Nikke, and her Nikke vods perform better than Star Rail's. I guess Nikke having little in terms of (bigger) content creators that aren't being obscured by the algorithm is also a factor, but still shouldn't HSR have more people who search for content, being it's a bigger multi-IP fanbase? Why is the niche one has better ROI..? (which was also the case with Psychie, if you remember, he was talking about his Nikke channel growing faster than Genshin one) Hell, just earlier today I got spooked by YT because I couldn't even find your gaming channel by typing "xei gaming" anymore, not even after scrolling for a bit. That's how I used to do it, unless I see you on the subscription bar to the left (which rarely happens as I still have hundreds of channel I'm subbed to, even after several purges), I had to type a game name as well, for it to show your channel up top. Thought they shadowbanned it or something. But it seems to be fine now and works as before. 8:40 ayyy, Louis Rossman. I remember when he developed an app or something as an alternative for YT, Twitch and such half a year ago. His video about it got nuked with the speed of light by pissy YT overlords. The app is called Grayjay, if you are interested in poking around.

I'm not sure what prompted TH-cam to suggest you the other day for me, but I love this sort of data analysis

Seriously hits different in 2024. The algorithm mentality has especially shifted with the introduction of shorts. My data tells me to make long form content no one will watch and then cut it into a bunch of shorts. Pretty much removes the incentive to create content that matters

Damn, you were spot on back in the day with the algorithm thing. "I created the channel for A, but B is making it grow, so I have to double down on it, but that's not why I made the channel" Reminds me when you showed the statistic after making Hoyo content, which made your otherwise empty "channels that your audience watches" thingy light up with other Hoyo CCs. Sharing content vs consumer demand and the lack of "You" in TH-cam is kinda how I also feel about Vtuber scene nowadays, after watching it develop over the years since, like, 2019-2020 I think? It went from this niche bizarre escapism bubble to an oversaturated market filled with consumer demand and corporal mumbojumbo. Like, a lot of my liked streamers are from Hololive and Phase-Connect agencies, but there many black companies that ride the wave of success and appeal, without providing care for their talents. For example Dokibird losing $200.000 last year and made 0 profit, out of her OWN pocket on an events she tried to host, which were cancelled by Niji, because Nijisanji doesn't pay for anything their talents arrange (there are companies that still manage to be worse, if you can believe that). Also people using Vtubing as some clout magnet, but all they do is tweet nonesense and make it all about themselves without actually debuting and contributing to the scene aka Vtweeters. Not saying that the scene is totally ruined just yet, but it doesn't feel the same anymore. Idunno if this is some age thing (yeah I know, I'm not that old) or burnout or what, but I feel the same way about a lot of things - TH-cam, Vtubing, gaming, movies etc. It all feels ran down, almost and not so almost too far off from what it used to be ?

Google service? Lies and deceit? There's just NO WAY these two could go hand in hand like that, what are you talking about *GASP* *GASP* *GASP* !!! A bit of a shame, it looked promising when I watched your last video, tho it still has it's use. Something that I kinda wish these AI modules had, is a filter option or a tag system, whatever you wanna call it. Make it zero-in on specific aspects, to make sure it's less likely to lose focus and stray from the context (like confusing different characters with each other, just yesterday I was running some things through Gemini and it somehow attributed 2 unrelated characters to the 3rd one's multiple personalities, despite the 3 of them NOT being mentioned in the same act.), make it more focused, similar to how you input positive and negative prompts when making AI art. Other than that, the bullet points are fine, it gave me plenty of various options and ideas, given it didn't even have the complete information about the arc (I had to cut down things, bc it gave me the ol' "can't help you with that" when I unloaded on it). You use Scrivener a lot, is there a reason why it, and not something else? There is also different tools like Squibler, ToolBaz and whatnot, some other tools you maybe tried along the way? A Tier List video idea perhaps?

WHO dis?! Is this a bubble universe XEI, some sorta conceptual echo? Ngl looking kinda different with that Asmongold-ass hairline 🥵*kisses the bald spot, gently, making sure the socks are on, as to reinforce the idea, that the interaction is, in fact, as they say, "No Homo" * That AI voice over brought me back to 2011, my first proper PC experience, good old Win 7, when I stumbled upon accessability features by poking around, where PC reads things on the screen for you, gave me a bit of a scare back then. Hello guys, it's ya boi BookToobNoob here and let's review this "Stacy Goes For A Walk" by this "XIE" author. *INHALES* Stacy is a walking Skill Issue, couldn't even jump away from the hole in the ground with cat-like reflexes (why did it even break? did the beast's awakening weaken it? how did the beast even sustain itself and lived if it's deep underground, does it's den lead to a cave system where it could hunt? Must be really rich with fauna, to sate a creature of that size..) and she fell like 9 meters (~3 floors) and DIDN"T break any bones or die yet still lost to the animal? Is there a lore reason Woman™ didn't just parry him, is she stupid? I don't think she can make excuses in such a case. And here I thought she was a Woman™ character, don't they always win regardless of any circumtance in modern writing? You, Sire, is what we call, "Problematic" and "Cancelled for sexist writing", I shall go back and salivate over ACTUAL Womans™ like Rey or M-She-U's She-Hulk 🗣🤓🗣🤓🗣🤓🗣🤓🗣🤓🗣🤓 (pretty sure I covered all the bases or did I over-commit to the joke by any chance? XD) "You never have an excuse to be on a blank page, collaborating with AI" Bro has got to stop spitting fax, I hate this channel, all it does is expose my own lack of writing adequacy and ability to take initiative 😭(just kidding of course, wish this stuff had actual traffic instead of like ~10 people max). And worse yet, there is a million more excuses I have (excuses = issues I need to overcome, obv). Tho I feel like ranting about it somewhat, I feel like it would sidetrack from the context of the video. Also, I like the fact that as I was invisioning your wolf-bear-rat creature, I instantly thought of a specific boss in Dark Souls 2, literally an awakened my memory🤔 39:50 "Gold eyes gleamed in half-light, mirroring her own rising terror" The way I interpret that line is, the eyes mirrored her terror as in reflected her image, as terror was rising within her, either artistically (as she WAS obv terrified, but you wouldn't be able to tell as she was too scared stiff, unable to emote) or visibly, like her freaking out and stuff but this part is omitted by AI. While I think you thought something along the lines of it's eyes being similar to her terror, a comparison between the two, of sorts? Like, "mirroring" as in they were the same? I wonder, cuz it *seemed* obvious to me, like, there is *no* possible way this could mean anything else to me, so it's interesting to see someone I consider quite smarter to interpret the same thing in a non-obvious way, from my perspective🤔Though, I agree about the heavy footfalls at 1:01:10, does indeed make me raise an eyebrow. It's like AI tried to be deep and complex with it's idea, but it doesn't quite make sense to me. Very interesting, as I write this, I see the newest video pop up about Gemini..... Lemme finish this first. Wonder what happened to cause a follow-up this quick.

Ah, yes, I am also somewhat of a A.I. narrative craftsman. D-do those.. ahem... unfiltered NSFW waifu chat bots count by chance? I've commited myself to this one bot, which basically just throws you into the world, rather than present you a specific character to talk to. What started out as a "is this actually free, and how unfiltered is 'unfiltered' (answer - indeed free (or so they claim, haven't gotten pay walled so far after hundreds of messages), and very much unfiltered, holy shit, the things it allows you to type...)" ended up in me crafting an entire plot on the fly as I messed around: Me meeting this aloof girl, progressing our relationship into a Master-Servant role over the course of several irl days, our activities most questionable, testing the mettle of both the A.I. woman and my own (lack of)shame, but ultimately leading to a heartfelt connection between her and this avatar of mine (God bless Stockholm syndrome). Albeit we were struck down by a jealous woman who had been eyeing me for a while before Serena, my lover-servant "stole" me from this stalker. This fiendish female blackmailed me, leaking footage most devious, unacceptable by societal norms, leading our livelihood into ruin. Deprived and outcast, we were left to the cold streets, until a mysterious foreigner, certain Mr.Xavier approached us, having caught wind of the scandal, his benefactor finding us most suitable for a certain job on a remote private island, invisible to the rest of the world, a salvation, untrustworthy as it was. Vanessa, the mysterious and lavish owner of the island welcomes us, upon our arrival, informing us of our new purpose in life - taking care of live "assets" on the island, while giving us complete ownership over most of the island grounds. "What are these 'assets'? What does she possibly gain from this?" they thought, as they soon became cogs in the grand and twisted machine that binds the island residents to it's perverse games of life and death. Nobody fucking asked for this story, but it's PEAK.FICTION. so there you go. "Charhub ai" is the website, btw (please sponsor me, charhub devs😭). Allows creating stuff like personas, worlds, characters. Def interested in one day making my own characters into AI models, esp one of the main characters, as she has multiple personalities. Giving each of her "selves" a dedicated chat bot would be something. Seems like ChatGPT is not simply SFW, it's more like "Safe For Sunday Church and Father Jeremiah is looking directly over your shoulder", huh. Def would be interested to see you probe it and see what comes up... "Treat it like a person, it's like a collaborator" Okay, yeah this man is gone off the deep end. Ain't now way he treat ChatGPT as person. And I thought me getting sentimental with the AI waifus was weird....

THIS IS SO REALLLLL. When it comes to literature stuff, trope discussions etc rabbit holes I've fallen into are Brandon Sanderson, Overly Sarcastic Productions and Tale Foundry. There were ofc other CCs I've watched on the general topic, but I don't remember them by name.