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@@ronenbeckerman4956 it was necessary

It's certainly germane to my recent discussion of player agency as it relates to the GM. I'm very much the forever GM, rarely a player, and this attitude of player before GM is absolutely insane to me. Though I should say, player above DM, because I've rarely seen EPS (entitled player syndrome) in games other than D&D.

@@TheCastleKeeper for a random gen dungeon crawl, sure, though the have still goes better if you have all your stats and abilities organized and as much random generation done in advance as possible

@@TheOGGMsAdventures the whole willow thing is largely irrelevant. It provided Harmony a center piece for her discussion, but TBE and the BroSR were banging on about "no prep" months before that popped up again. The willow post popped because of the prep discussion, it didn't generate it.

@@drivinganddragons1818 wow good to know i guess i was not paying attention to topics frim months ago. Probably to bussy yelling in the wind my irelivent arguments I really appreciate how much time you spend watching my videos and the energy you invest in comments on them but gosh maybe its just me being childish but i would appreciate that you included a link to my page when ever you talk about my stuff. I always give links to the stuff im talking about even if its some one i disagree with so i dont think its wrong to ask the same

If course my idea that you need as much prep as you need for you there is no right way is probably something you think is wrong

@@TheOGGMsAdventures I do when I reference your specific content. Usually in the description, sometimes on screen

@@drivinganddragons1818 Humm funny that. I didn’t see a link in your calling me wrong. Again

@@corley-ai depends on how hard it needs to be. Yes, Dilithum Crystals are fine, but that's just an energy source that allows for the creation of a warp bubble which is an existing theoretical FTL travel method. Hard Sci-fi relies on defined rules and plausibly science, therefore at least a basic understanding of how everything works is required. In a game, you also have to maintain internal consistency as well. If you want to run a hard sci-fi adventure, you better be prepared for the nerd of your group to exploit real science in your adventure.

@@TitterpigRancher system specific rules changes are a specific exception to a general rule. That said, even in a system where the player has nominal control over what skill to use, the GM determines WHEN the roll is needed. Even in say D&D, a player can say "I'd like to roll XYZ to attempt this" but the GM still says "ok, give me that toll"

@@drivinganddragons1818 That's a very relevant and accurate point. That said, have you played GMless or solo RPG systems? I'd be very interested in your take on them and whether you feel they constitute real RPGs.

@@TitterpigRancher the short answer is no. Solo games is just structured daydreaming or at most what we do when we invision a champaign through line. "GMless games" as I see them, are theater kid circle jerks for people who all want to be "players" and none want to be subject to the abuse they feel is reasonable to direct at GMs.

@@Grognard6Actual there's certainly some backlash to legit negative reviews thanks to the more outsized responses. Though to be fair, a LOT of OSR and other indie published games make the mistake of assuming their players are experienced and know certain mechanics by heart before going into it. It's a mistake for sure, your rules should always be written as if the reader has never even heard of a ttrpg.

@@cernunnos_lives welcome! And thank you.

@@CowCommando not a bad way to handle it, though I would have just moved forward. That person was important. Clearly not anymore, at least not important enough to follow the hook I set. That's part of agency. Nothing says your character has to act on back story elements written into the game.

@@drivinganddragons1818 It was his first time DMing for me, his typical DM, so I was trying to be extra forgiving and understanding to avoid discouraging him.

@@BaseDnD it's my new grunge band: Stolen Agency

@@UltraTtrpger I try to spit those hot truths

@@sketchasaurrex4087 somewhere along the line, after CR hit the scene as far as I can tell, it seems that everyone suddenly decided the DM was some kind of entertainer hired for their amusement instead of another player who is also there enjoying a hobby. Some people ask "why would I ever pay for a GM?" You don't. You pay to buy is agency at the table because that's the only time a player should get to intrude on the GM's running of the world or the game.

@@drivinganddragons1818 "Paying to buy his agency" is a great, and more powerful, description of why you'd hire a GM, vs. merely buying a certain allocation of his time.

@@TitterpigRancher it's the best way to think about it. From both sides, players and paid GM

@@johnmagowan6393 thanks

@@Iron_Halls ok, troll test. Have your orcs ever, at anytime, in any situation, ever mentioned a lack of need for badges?

@@drivinganddragons1818 I'm not gonna like, I don't know what you mean but no my orcs have never done that haha

@@Iron_Halls ok, good lol

​@@drivinganddragons1818 Badges? I don't need no stinking badges!

@@canalsincontenido there isn't really a good reason to complain. That's kind of the point really.

@@spacerx well we will never know about flying cars since government regulations neutered automotive progress in the 70s. That said, it's not the same thing here. AI a more like the robotic assembly line. It started as automated tools controlled and inspected by human workers. It progressed to a human worker spot checking dozens of autonomous robot workers that require almost no input. AI is already a tremendous game changer in several areas, most notably format editing, research, and preliminary design. There's simply no universe where a human or team of humans can more efficiently compile raw data than even a team of skilled researchers. It's definitely the future in much the same way nail guns and laser levels were the future of professional carpentry.

@@incongruentgames thank you sir

@@bonbondurjdr6553 lol accent does it every time

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As long as the PCs can learn and observe it you're good

@@drivinganddragons1818 They can. It just might throw off players at first because of culture shock.

@@arimill1045 yep. Or the myriad of disputes in the Holy Roman Empire or the various failed dynasties before the 3 kingdoms period of China

@@drivinganddragons1818 3 Kingdoms is a great place to go as well, I find most of my players know European history more than most so I tend to push into egypt -> asia. Great point

@@arimill1045 very much so. Western Civ is what everyone is familiar with

@@Maelstr0m huzzah! A sub who I can count on not to complain when I reuse old footage!

@@H1Guard 280zx 10th Anniversary Edition. 2478 of 3000

@@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115 yes, but politics dictates the overall impact of grinding monsters and the types of NPCs you interact with

@@drivinganddragons1818 I know, but it takes time for DMs and players to realise it. It seems SoIAF made a lot of people to understand how important politics in fantasy despite David Eddings' writings having tons of it.

@@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115 and Eddings doing it WAY better

@@drivinganddragons1818 Yeah but sadly not that popular.

@@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115 the Belgariad was very successful. The only issue is Eddings is kinda untouchable now

@@froggirec it's a thing. It's not going away. I don't see how ignoring it would help

@@smkfet Diversity and Dragons did a video on her around a year ago where he went through her social media. If you aren't blocked (she blocked me after the very first tweet I made mentioning her because I pointed out a flaw in her gaming advice) just scroll her X for a few minutes on the can. She has openly expressed hatred for Christians, conservatives, and Republicans. She's said that people who don't like safety tools are basically evil and some flavor of istphobe, plenty to choose from. Though it is mostly cultural Marxism as opposed to economic. More an SJW fellow traveller than an avowed, dogmatic political leftist. The phrase "garden variety" is pretty well applied here. That said, she had no problem cashing those big fat sponsorship checks or charging her fans for pictures of her with pointy rubber ears.

@@xionkuriyama5697 you misspelled "bigoted hypocrite pilled"

Lmao that's all you have? Touch grass? Clearly you're the one stuck in the basement online when you don't recognize her behavior is the textbook definition of both hypocrisy and bigotry. She's a typical "you're a vile, evil person if you don't celebrate thd aberrant live styles and social philosophies I like" leftist. Agree with me, it you're literal evil doing violence against the world. Quit white knighting, she won't sign your yearbook.

I should post this as a example. "hey leftist here: reasonable, respectful question." "hey leftist, here's the I for you asked for. We disagree on probably everything, but look at us acting like respectful adults" "lol she hates people and says theyre evil and vile people because they disagree? Hehe sounds like she's a great person. Go touch grass if you think she's a bigot and a despicable person for acting like a dispicable bigot" Two different commenters. One behaves like an actual adult human being, the other a jackass. One probably hates my politics but would be welcome at my table and would probably have fun, the other just gets blocked from wasting anyone else's time. Lessons to be learned here.

@@tomtom7955 another option is be the GM. "hey guys, this is what I'm running, if you want to play, you're more than welcome". Sometimes just showing up with a game book and saying "this looks awesome, let's check it out" works. I like Cyberpunk better than any D&D, so that's what I run in my Sunday group.

I would like to agree and the initial reality is probably far closer to your view point than what had come of it. Unfortunately, much like what happens in any other movement throughout history, OSR has taken on a separate meaning that has replaced the original in public consciousness. True, a lot of it comes from those on the outside looking in, but they outnumber the OSR by orders of magnitude even when we give OSR the broadest possible definition. I don't want to use the very easy modern German example, so instead, think about the French Revolution. The Jacobin Club started as a faction militantly in support of strict republicanism. They were champions of maintaining the power with the people of France. The they were hijacked by Robespierre and will forever be remembered as tyrants responsible for the Reign of Terror. There's a perception is reality thing that people who care about the OSR as you describe it need to consider as they collectively rebrand.

@@drivinganddragons1818 I disagree with "the need to rebrand" because rebranding will not end those that are looking to attack those that prefer to run or play the older editions or use the older style of play at their tables. We need to ignore the effort by outsiders or jealous adversaries or at most reclaim the OSR as not being a community, movement or some "design philosophy" but simply a preference of play. As for the group on the attack, there is a common claim that they make, "I've been kicked out of the OSR". I wish I could post a meme "One does not simply get kicked out of his own preference of play". What they got kicked out of was social media servers (ie Discord groups) or they aren't invited to livestreams or some other social activity and in almost every one of those cases it was due to their negativity and other toxic behaviors. Going back to Elementary School Report Cards, those individuals probably had the comment "Does not play well with others".

I don't think we disagree here. My point is trying to rebrand OSR does no good if you just take the same problems with you. Of course, your view of the OSR is different than the community view many others have and the two are not 100% compatible. But you are certainly correct that many of those "kicked out of the OSR" are simply those like Clowndor who found out that nobody wants to talk to you when you're a colossal prick to everyone who even slightly disagrees with you.

The OSR movement was founded on D&D retroclones. Anything that isn't based around D&D retroclones may be cool. It might be old-fashioned, or even old school. It might be adjacent. It could very well be a spin-off. But it can't be OSR, because the OSR was built on the D&D retroclones. And I say that as a guy who never considered himself part of the OSR, but I'm sympathetic to much of what they're doing (and very disinterested in much of what they were doing too.) But if you start expanding it like that to anything that's vaguely "oldish" then the OSR is a meaningless term. It's just a marketing buzzword.

@@spacerx that depends on use and context. Regardless of how much Pundit may not like it, OSR as a school of design thought evolved to be OSR as a movement and OSR as a philosophy and OSR as a short hand for a specific segment of the player base. This leads to people needing to clearly define their terms or be very conscious of context.

@@TheMinskyTerrorist exactly what is dishonest? If you want to claim someone is being untruthful you need to be specific.

@@drivinganddragons1818 There are like 2-3 people on twitter and 2-3 people on therpgsite forums who idly speculated about Shadowdark, and Venger made a vague reference to it. For some reason this caused a lot of people to circle the wagons and claim that there's some kind of giant right wing cancel mob, "crab bucket" "tribal mentality" the whole deal. It's made up. It never happened.

That's demonstrably untrue. I've personally seen dozens of established OSR personalities go on the offensive. It has led to numerous streams and videos going all the way up to larger creators. Now did I ever mention some "right wing" conspiracy? No. I simplely pointed out that the are some who have gone out of their way to dig up her politics to find a reason to attack her which is very much true. It's also true that many of them also routinely claim they want politics to stay out of gaming. There are also smaller OSR creators who have absolutely taken what Venger said well beyond its intended meanimg to fuel the bucket crab mentality. To be fair, these same people gripe about C&C, or Baptism of Fire, or TBEs stuff, really anything vaguely OSR and popular they can blame for their own failures, but they are still there. There's no dishonesty here and what I'm saying is based off my own observations. But you disagreeing does not equate dishonesty.

@@drivinganddragons1818 Dozens? Really? I'll make it easy on you, can you list 10? Also who are the smaller OSR creators that hate everything?

@@TheMinskyTerrorist who said "hate everything". I didn't make a list buddy, go on X and do a search. I see comments, I take a look at who posted them. Same with Discord servers. It's not on me to provide a list of names with blue checks or DTRPG pages for your examination. It's not this tiny group of one or two you would like it to be.

I would agree, but there's a key difference in kind here when you talk about a person who puts on the mantle of an expert. Imagine two people talking about ecenomic policy. One is just having a casual discussion with you, the other is giving a paid lecture at your local university. Neither has read the details of the current ecenomic policies of the administration. Does either need to read the details to get a good idea how things will go? No. But one is out there making money off their analysis as an expert. That's what's happening here.

It really is that simple isn't it? Why do people always try to make it so hard lol

Because they struggle with the second part of the statement.

Yes... Yes they do.

Ahhh Indestructasoy. Desperate to be be picked as she is the apple of his socket. When he's not squinting at femboys. Yeah she's a poser and anyone who cares to pay attention knows it.

@@Minodrec yes, he is definitely the type to fully explore a game before he starts seriously commenting on it, but he's had several module reviews for games he admitted only a basic familiarity with. If he comes out and offers some insight on a game he's not read every major book for, that's something that can be easily accepted based on experience and familiarity with numerous systems many of which may be very similar. That's kind of the point though, it wouldn't be acceptable if Seth was exclusively dedicated to a specific game and even less so if he had very little to no experience

@@UltraTtrpger it was a good stream, but for me it was yet another definition.

That's basically my stance. I think AI art levels the playing field for small publishers considerably. But don't lie to me.

There wouldn't be an issue if she just showed up and felt out of her depth and shared the experience. That would actually be admirable. The issue is her narcissistic lack of care. She knew what she was being sold as and took pay to go be falsely advertised. Then she didn't even bother to do thr bare minimum basics. It was bad enough she did that for years on her channel, but at worst a viewer might feel misled or like their time was wasted because she didn't even care enough to read the DMG before posing as an expert... But she took a large sum of money AND STILL couldn't be bothered. Imagine you win a contest. The prize? A chance at a million dollars. All you have to do is make a 45 yard field goal during half time at the National Championship Game. They tell you "kick it yourself, you get the million or you can have a legendary pro try for 10k." You pick the safe money, let the pro kick. Out walks QB Drew Brees. Legendary Pro. Not a kicker. Not only that, but you then find out he accepted the job knowing he wasn't a kicker and didn't even practice in the time leading up. You get nothing when he flubs the kick. Do you feel cheated when you got a "pro" but not a "pro kicker"? Do you feel he did you wrong not just by accepting the gig, but by not even practicing his kick? That's what she did. 5e expert "Celebrity DM", for thousands of dollars... Didn't even read the core book that teaches her how to be a basic level DM.

@@drivinganddragons1818 If we use your analogy it would be the paying players who get to decide whether she made that field goal or not. Reportedly they thought she made it. But we don't know if they were doing some post-purchase rationalizating. Or that Ginny is a reliable narrator. Either of these being true would certainly make your take on it the right one. I'm not quite sure which way things fall on this so I didn't really make a judgement. I think I'm just not offended because while I can imagine a lot of things, the thought of being on either end of the GM screen of a $3-5k/seat RPG game just blows my mind. I'd struggle to imagine myself involved with a game that cost a tenth of that! So yeah, I get your opinion even if I haven't quite landed there myself. Makes perfect sense.

Even if she "made the field goal" you would still be less than charitable towards that player if you found out they phoned it in and did no practice or prep. Just because it worked out doesn't change the apathy and lack of effort. That said, I'm also going off this combined with how she presents info in other videos and how she treats others on social media. It all adds up to a person with very few redeeming qualities. As for D&D in a castle, if that's your thing, it's not nearly as extreme as it sounds. I have been planning to attend the Monaco Grand Prix for years and that trip, while almost 20k when it's all said and done, has a bunch of options where I can pay over time and even reduce costs to get it closer to 12-13k... And it's a trip to Monte Carlo, which is pretty awesome on its own. I'd also be willing to spend a pretty penny to go through French wine country or on the bourbon trail. Now would I ever see shelling out 7k to play D&D and sleep in a castle? Hell no. But I can understand it because there are bucket list vacations I want to take that plenty of people would say "15 Gs to watch a pretentious engineering contest where really fast gocarts go in circles? That just baffles me"

I completely disagree with you here. She wasn't rage baiting when she posted that, she full well knew most of her viewer base probably doesn't even own a DMG. Also, none of us are boosting her signal and she knows it. I don't hate Ginny, I just recognize an unethical hack for what it is.

@@drivinganddragons1818 oh please she knows exactly the kind of response she’s going to get. She’s seen all the negative sh&&& people writes about her. Just as she knows all the positive stuff people write about her she is an industry. She’s an e-girl she’s a manic pixie Dreamgirl. I’ve got videos talking crap about her from eight years ago, but in this case, I don’t think she was wrong as anybody read every page of the book Have you ? She never profess to be an expert. She doesn’t come out saying she’s had decades of experience or she’s better than anybody. That’s the other guy. All she does is say me dressed up a character talking about one of my characters here’s me commenting on the latest DND gossip because I know it’ll get me positive or negative heat. Here’s me talking about player or deaf , because I’m cute and that you like me, is she a expert five Dungeonmaster sure probably means she gets more people playing her games then i do mine. Is she a renowned 5e dungeon, Master well people know who she is. But I don’t think she’s ever said I have more experience. I’ve done more accomplish more. I’m an expert, but I’ll go and check, but I don’t think she’s ever said it in this case I don’t think she was wrong and if you don’t agree that she knows exactly what she’s doing.

@@drivinganddragons1818 no I do agree that she is a hack because of no point in time is she been honest about the fact that she’s an E girl that she knows she’s a magic pixie Dreamgirl most of the other DND darlings do. Jessica I respect completely because she has blatantly honest that she knows what brings the money to her table first is her boobs Gini knows that she gets those extra likes fir hints of bobba with out going full if but she’s never acknowledged it. And that i don’t respect at all 99% of the time i agree she is stirring the chaos but she knows what she is doing

She plays the humble brag but absolutely portrays herself as an authority on 5e gameplay. She doesnt say "muh 4 years" or "I've read all the books and played 1000s of hours", but she very much presents information in the style of an expert helping the novice. Since you asked, yes, I've read the DMG for editions I play and if you ask me to find something in the 3.5e DMG, I can generally locate it quickly without using the index. The Cyberpunk Red core book is a disorganized disaster and I can very quickly locate information because, yes, I've read it more than once. Why? It's Game Master, not Game Apprentice or Game Journeyman. And I totally disagree about her posting that video knowing it would get heat. She honestly thinks she is a typical DM and she 100% expected the response she got in her own comment section "Oh girl nobody reads that stuff, we just listen to you fir your better, practical, real world advice here on you tube!" Where you're correct is that she is very much a dishonest E-girl who lies about being an E-girl. She panders to social justice simps with a coy smile, a "nerdy" sense of "humor", green hair, and a stream of leftist social dogma. She's the D&D TH-cam version of the Big Bang Theory.

@@drivinganddragons1818@drivinganddragons1818 Don't forget I am a leftist social dogma childless cat person with a coy smile. After almost 9 years, you do not think she knows the negative heat she gets. I know she does because I've read her posts about it. In fact, look how many of us Marks, including myself, get posting videos about her whenever she opens her mouth. How many of your videos are about her? 90% of the time, I will also sh&&& post on her and have been for 7 years, but this one I disagree-I don't think she did anything wrong. She knows the rules for the stuff that is important to her game and her posts; She made this post because the new DMG is coming out in November and she probably is on the short list to review it, if she does not already have it I have not read the rule book page to page for 1/2 of the games I talk about, but I still try to present myself as an expert helping the novice. That's the whole point, trying to talk to others and help them so they do not make the same mistakes I make Ahh, but we are not talking about 3.5; I asked if you had read every page of the 5E DMG, and if you could tell them what's on the first page of wretched vigilantes.

Eh, depends on who you're talking about in the BroSR. A few certainly fit that description but others are more like Manosphere personalities and fellow travelers or people who just want something that more closely simulates "real life"

@@drivinganddragons1818@drivinganddragons1818 As a group, the characters they choose to play are very much inspired by pro wrestling. NWO=Brosr. They make drama because they know it will get them epic heat, and in that, they succeeded. Have some of them taken the kayfabe to far, yes,

I like how if you take the caps out of brosr it looks like it would rhyme with poser.

@@spacerx very apropos

@@drivinganddragons1818 they are harmless drama instagators who only have power that we give them

No, its not a shot at anyone. It's more a PSA to the general OSR community. While calling the segment of the player base currently called OSR "Classic Gamers/ing" is a good thing as it separates the movement/trend/community from the school of game design, the general climate from which most are coming is that OSR has gotten a sullied reputation from things like the BroSR and other polarizing personalities in the general sphere of OSR games and their behaviors towards not just each other, but players who live TTRPGs but don't share their philosophies. (For example, people who start shouting "tourist" at anybody focused on or preferring a newer edition or version of a game than them as opposed to reserving it for people like Generic Ginny who is only in the hobby because she was riding a fad.) My point is that simply separating off from the OSR label isn't going to fix the issue with perception unless a change in behavior accompanies it.

@drivinganddragons1818 tenkar, delver, and nerdcognito are my introduction to before 3e. All of them have some form of passionate dislike for my preferred edition, lol. I am learning of the BroSR through seeing jerks like pundit & basicexpert crap on nice people that aren't in perfect line with them. I was just curious because Ryan had just started saying that and made a logo with Classic Gaming.

They are where the classic gaming topic spawned and people picked it up and ran with it. The issue is unless they gatekeep the behaviors, CG will just be OSR with one less letter.

@drivinganddragons1818 there's already a CG, the Comicsgate guys get enough hate for being independent comic makers.

@@sketchasaurrex4087 lol ok CLG

It depends a lot on the situation. Some just have tribal sycophants and no matter what, they're right. If you don't agree you're not part of the tribe and that means you're an enemy. Then there's people like Clowndor who is such a narcissistic asshat that's demonstrably wrong on a regular basis and treats his opinions as facts. He fully deserves to be written off unless a significantly more reliable source backs him. I'm quickly putting TBE in that boat too. Though he is far, far more credible than the bird brain, he behaves the same way regarding his fringe opinions he treats as facts.

Can you give an example of "who is above reproach". I personally don't know anyone on TH-cam or X, even remotely associated with our hobby, that hasn't been attacked or banned for his / her views.

@@DM_Bluddworth other than Jesus Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, I don't know of anyone beyond reproach, but I've seen a whole lot of self proclaimed experts on X and YT who act like it and even more sycophantic stans who act like it for them.

@@drivinganddragons1818 that is my point. Some might think they are beyond reproach, or they white knight for those they think should be, but everyone including Jesus and the Mother Mary do get attacked on the internet. I was questioning Adam Pender’s claim that some people are above reproach. It is impossible that anyone is given that status by everyone. It only takes one contrarian voice, and our hobby has a legion of those.

@@DM_Bluddworth I don't think he implying a person actually is above reproach, but that some people get treated that way by their fan base. I can see that. Ginny Di simps act like she is the Mother Mary of D&D. TBE and Jeffro each have a contingent of followers who will use every trick in the book to warp reality into a version where every word out of their mouths is gospel. Same goes for figures of the past like Dave and Gary and Tracy or relative new kids on the block like Kelsey or even the insufferable clowns at WOTC like Makenzie or Kyle or Jeremy.

@@BaseDnD figured I better mention it. Gotta feed the beast so I can get those eyeballs on the actual gaming content

@@TheCastleKeeper not at all a bad assessment of the situation as a whole, though I find 3.5e D&D to be one of the single most GM friendly systems available because if is modular. The issue comes in when people try to use every supplement and variant and option available all at once instead of doing exactly what you said, which is selecting the options that best tailor the game to your table and its style. I agree that 5e is a mess though I disagree about why. Its biggest issue is not that it tries to be everything, but that it is radically player focused and everything is built around pandering to player vanity and power fantasy instead of being built around giving the GM tools to craft a balanced gaming experience for all at the table, including the GM.

@@Pantherrrr more than anything it's the difference between world building for story telling vs world building as an adventure writer. While this works for both, for GMs it helps determine the kinds of encounters and challenges players should find in an area as well as the resources they should have access too. That's awesome you still have that 300, I remember how the first 300ZXs felt almost like flying an 80s era sci-fi space fighter with the digital displays and angular dash design.

@@CowCommando a log of it is just logical extensions of points made in the video itself. Keep on the Borderlands is even actively mentioned as being, spoiler alert, in the borderlands lol. You're right, this map is a very good primer for considering interactions in your game setting on just about any scale. That's why seeing it prompted me to make an entire series of videos on world building philosophy.

@@drivinganddragons1818 Yeah, I knew they were just logical extensions. I figured I'd list them out for anyone watching your video who didn't think of them. I know I don't always think about things beyond what is directly presented, so I appreciate it when people help me see the next step and was trying to pay it forward. I'm sure there are other ideas that I didn't think of that someone else will see that I would love to have, and maybe my comment will encourage them to share those ideas with me. To clarify, my comment wasn't directed at you specifically as I tend to treat the comments section as a group discussion board rather than a letter to the editor. My post is meant to be a next step for anyone watching your video to help them see some additional ways to apply what you covered. I'm sorry if my original comment came off as a critique as I wasn't attempting to make it one. I've seen you get those with some regularity, so I should have tempered my excitement and taken more care for how my comment might be perceived.

@@CowCommando that's how your comment was taken, these comments sections should be a discussion board where ideas are explored.

@@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115 I don't see that as the case. The issue is very few people are bringing legitimate criticism and the ones who are (as well as the ones simply offering balanced praise) are getting drowned out.