I am gratefully whelmed. This simple wisdom is why I subscribed for. That said, this video was too long, too short, too casual, too tryhard, too frequent, not frequent enough, too deep, too shallow, too hot, too cold, too swet, too sour, too tasty, and absolutely flavorless. All at the same time. Hope you are happy now, sir.
My favorite MTG flavor text: Blood of the Martyr "The willow knows what the storm does not: that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it."
"You are not alone, you never were." still one of my favourite flavour text. - and side note, randomly finding Josh in an LGS in England to play Magic would be awesome.
1:55 - I was completely sure he was about to say: "you don't need to judge yourself by the effort you put into something, you judge yourself by the effort you don't have to put into something."
hand in hand with, "You judge yourself by your intentions, others judge you by your behaviour." Which is basically the same message but slightly altered. He has said that often too.
You just helped me realize something about myself and why I've struggled to settle into the corporate world as a copywriter. People in the corporate world love to say they are passionate, but in the corporate world, results are measured by performance, not by change or evolution. It's the increase of numbers instead of the increase of an idea, if that makes sense.
Josh, your stream works because you’re like a young David Attenborough, but instead of narrating wildlife, you’re capturing the essence of life through the lens of video games.
To paraphrase a certain bearded man... What makes a commodity is that it contains two values. One is it's value as being useful the other its value as something for exchange. However what makes something a commodity in the eyes of those who use that thing as a commodity is that it's exchange value is the only thing they actually care about. The moment your goal is exchange the specific nature of what you are doing no longer matters only the money does and something becomes only as good as it serves that purpose. You are no longer producing furniture, food, art and so on, you are now producing commodities. You are no longer an artist you are a producer
This is why we love you, your content and your channel. You have your heart in it and heart is what separates you from corporations and their greed. You love to entertain people, make us laugh, cry and teach us the value of self-love and doing something because you want to not because you have to or that someone told you to. You are a genuine good person, and good things come to those who do good in this world, ten-fold.
I'll consume any content you post, no matter what it is and no matter how fast or slow it comes out. I prefer you do it the way you enjoy. And I love these stream clips where you talk too. Pour your passion into it and do it on your schedule is my thoughts. There are those of us, who will watch
This reminds of something Primeagen said, "We the consumers only care about results. We the builders only care about the quality of the build." I find this resonates with what Josh talks about and it's applicable to a lot of industries today.
@@ZaylidinOfficial Im pretty sure a lot of Wotc ppl arent happy about the fornitification. I heard LSV and marshall talk about it in one of their Duskmourne episodes. This is clearly Hasbro and Wotc has to play along (for the most part).
@@devilbhrothesavage2807 idk if WotC is blameless either. But the people working on the actual cards are likely just passionate designers with no say in management.
How ironic that a Magic The Gathering card has that flavour text. ANYWAY, HERE IS SPONGEBOB, THE FORK KNIFE BATTLEBUS, BLACKWASHED ARAGORN, AI GENERATED PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL THAT WE CERTAINLY DID NOT MAKE[x], AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST: ARTIFICIAL SCARCITY MARVEL COLLAB CARDS BOUGHT UP BY SCALPERS, YIPPEEEEE!!!
Basically. People are ruined by primary schools teaching perfectionism and aversion to mistakes/flaws... And the 40/hour, hourly wage culture that is like 100 years old. Quantity of time in work only matters in things like active service and industry jobs. Other fields, the only thing that matters is the product, and the efficiency of low time for high quality is ideal.
@@kurrwa 100 years ago was only 2 years off Henry Ford implemented 40 hour work weeks in his factories it was also 38 years after the Haymarket Riot which was caused by The Illinois Legislature passing a law about mandatory 8 hour workdays remember Henry Ford RESEARCHED 40 hour work weeks before he implemented them in his factories you cant research something without it already existing
It's amazing to hear stuff like this two times a week from people I look up to. Swen's speech at TGA conveyed a similar message. It was the best part of the whole ceremony. By far.
Well put. Time and effort have never been and will never be proportional to the results you're getting. You still have to put in at least some and hope for the best.
Its not ambition that creates greed. Greed is part of the human condition. Having wealth at all can feed your greed. Your the safest content creator I know Your the Keanu Reeves of content creators in a universe that hated the matrix. Please continue to level up, most people actually did hate the matrix at first. 🥺
People working within entertainment should really take note here. It doesn't matter how much effort and love you put into your work if nobody is going to enjoy what you've made.
Truth is, some of those “I put thousands of hours into this why no you”’people don’t get that for a content creator, they’re working. Those thousands of hours John Average Gamer puts in are enjoyment, typically. Not being recorded, edited, etc. just them messing around for fun in their own off time. They think it’s all about the game, they may be totally unaware of how involved editing video can get.
"I wanted to entertain people. As soon as I make that robotic, as soon as I make that corporate, as soon as I make that industrial... I lose something that I can't get back." And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why AAA game corporations will always eventually fall by the wayside, and why (most of the time) indie game developers shine. It's the difference between doing something for entertainment, and doing it for money. It's the difference between creativity, and greed. It's the difference between working on something you love, and being a slave to a corporate machine. "Where ambition meets industry, passion is poisoned by greed," is not only 100% true, but it can be seen in the games industry going back twenty years. I would even argue that the concept is what led Atari to crash the market back in 1983 as well. And yet despite the truth being everywhere, what has the industry learned? They've learned that "a single sandbag is a cool new way to hold back a tidal wave, and how dare anyone criticize us for thinking so."
"I carry 23 great wounds, all got in battle. 75 men have I killed with my own hands in battle. I scatter, I burn my enemy's tents. I take away the flocks and herds. The Turks pay me a golden treasure yet I am poor, because I am a river to my people."
Sorry if it upset you, I#m not saying the effort wouldn't be appreciated, i'm saying the very real fact of 'customers and audience care about the result, not the process'.
Thats your takeaway from it? The analogy (that was apparently lost on you) was regarding receiving a produkt.I doubt you would walk into the restaurant, received a burnt to a crisp inedible food, then ate it and complimented the chef after. Neither should you.
Awesome video, Josh! Love little Clippy there in the corner. Perfectly put! Never become exclusively a reaction-streamer! While some reaction-content can be great (for example people stepping out of their comfort zone watching something that they would never normally watch), if it would become your primary content, it would be terrible! Better slow and steady growth than jumping on trends.
The issue is that the audience hungers for fast food so they ignore the great homemade meals you can make for them. I believe it is a worthy goal to try to elevate people's palate to something that is better for them.
That's an honorable attitude. Most content creators just react to many videos other created and put effort in it, Asmongold as an example. But they just give their oppinion to the stuff others put work in. That's the lowest form of content you can create. It's really lazy but the people watch it like mad because we are a consumer society. I appreciate much more high quality content than reaction videos. That's the reason i unsubscribed to all youtubers who did that because it annoyed me after some time.
1:40 - That reminds me of an old (probably apocryphal) story about Henry Ford, who was having problems with a huge GE generator in his plant. After his in-house engineers couldn't figure it out, he eventually called in General Electric. Charles Steinmetz, the GE expert who arrived, rejected all help and only asked for a pencil, notebook, and a cot to sleep on. For 2 days and nights he listened to the generator and scribbled down equations. After two days he asked for a ladder, climbed up, and made a chalk mark. He told Ford's engineers to take the plate he marked off and replace 16 coil windings. The skeptical engineers did, and the generator worked like a charm. Ford was thrilled until he got the $10,000 invoice! Ford balked at the figure and wanted an itemized bill. Steinmetz sent back the following: Making chalk mark on generator: $1 Knowing where to make mark: $9,999 Ford paid.
You're not realy paying for the time you get back. You pay for the product. This is in line with Josh's statement about cooking meals. It doesn't matter how long it takes if its shit. It matters if the final product is worth your money.
TH-cam is such a young market place I wonder how it will evolve in the future? monetizations changes everything how people making videos so passion can be lost easily
i hate that this also reflects in the job market Managers who don't know any better think that because I finished something in 30 minutes that it took the last 4 people 2 hours means it's worse. It gets doubled down if you make a mistake, because instead of thinking that the previous employee was incompetent, they think you cut corners. Then they pile more work on you because you have more free time, and then you leave because they don't compensate for it financially. You leave, and then in comes a new person that takes 2 hours to do the same task again, and your effort never gets acknowledget. Yes I am upset, how can you tell?
I quickly learned to do the bare minimum at jobs because effort wasn't rewarded. The opposite - you get rewarded with more work and your effort to do more becomes your new expected norm. You are a resource to these people. Only that, not human in any capacity. A coal. They burn you out and get new sucker in your place.
You aren't paying for the 30 minutes someone spends doing a job that would take you 100, you're paying for the years of experience that led up to that 30 minute job
Played MTG when i was a kid, was absolutely astonished/disappointed when i learned there were transformers and fortnite and all sorts of cash grab rubbish in it now.
Ι love the heavy hitting title in combination with the solemn thumbnail, preparing us to be showered with the truth of the universe. This is an exquisite example of clickbait as an art form.
My favourite window mode gamer
a window to the past, but also a window to what lies within...
My favourite second window window mode gamer
Missing my Bandicam plugin lmao, and it hits my soul like a truck
I am gratefully whelmed.
This simple wisdom is why I subscribed for.
That said, this video was too long, too short, too casual, too tryhard, too frequent, not frequent enough, too deep, too shallow, too hot, too cold, too swet, too sour, too tasty, and absolutely flavorless.
All at the same time.
Hope you are happy now, sir.
You forgot "too salty" and "not salty enough." lol
My favorite MTG flavor text:
Blood of the Martyr
"The willow knows what the storm does not: that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it."
My personal fav is "wizards learn to fear many phrases chief among them is Oops"
My favorite flavor text comes from the Lhurgoyf: "Ack! Hans, run! It's the Lhurgoyf!" Short. Poignant. Accurate 😂
"You are not alone, you never were." still one of my favourite flavour text. - and side note, randomly finding Josh in an LGS in England to play Magic would be awesome.
"I make art for kicks. You make art for clicks. We are not the same." - JSH, probably.
Whelming, as expected
😂
i, too, am adequately whelmed
:D
Truly a top 5 streamer
Perfectly whelming, as all things should be
1:55 - I was completely sure he was about to say:
"you don't need to judge yourself by the effort you put into something, you judge yourself by the effort you don't have to put into something."
hand in hand with, "You judge yourself by your intentions, others judge you by your behaviour." Which is basically the same message but slightly altered. He has said that often too.
You just helped me realize something about myself and why I've struggled to settle into the corporate world as a copywriter. People in the corporate world love to say they are passionate, but in the corporate world, results are measured by performance, not by change or evolution. It's the increase of numbers instead of the increase of an idea, if that makes sense.
Josh, your stream works because you’re like a young David Attenborough, but instead of narrating wildlife, you’re capturing the essence of life through the lens of video games.
MTG flavor text is the OG motivational yt. So much wisdom was passed on to me when younger
Game developers understand that flavor text so well. Thank you for being the most whelming, best dressed, and most consistent streamer I know.
2nd monitor streamer*
To paraphrase a certain bearded man... What makes a commodity is that it contains two values. One is it's value as being useful the other its value as something for exchange. However what makes something a commodity in the eyes of those who use that thing as a commodity is that it's exchange value is the only thing they actually care about. The moment your goal is exchange the specific nature of what you are doing no longer matters only the money does and something becomes only as good as it serves that purpose. You are no longer producing furniture, food, art and so on, you are now producing commodities. You are no longer an artist you are a producer
Santa Claus is an eternal font of wisdom
@@ClarkKentaiSanta Claus was born in Trier and his head elf owned a factory in Manchester
This is why we love you, your content and your channel. You have your heart in it and heart is what separates you from corporations and their greed. You love to entertain people, make us laugh, cry and teach us the value of self-love and doing something because you want to not because you have to or that someone told you to. You are a genuine good person, and good things come to those who do good in this world, ten-fold.
I'll consume any content you post, no matter what it is and no matter how fast or slow it comes out. I prefer you do it the way you enjoy. And I love these stream clips where you talk too. Pour your passion into it and do it on your schedule is my thoughts. There are those of us, who will watch
Thank you for posting this video. This had two very important takeaways that really mattered to me...
This reminds of something Primeagen said, "We the consumers only care about results. We the builders only care about the quality of the build." I find this resonates with what Josh talks about and it's applicable to a lot of industries today.
Every once in a while I take a moment to put a Josh video on my first monitor.
The flavour text of Blackcleave Cliffs is even more fitting for Hasbro/WOTC right now...
I was thinking the same thing. In fact, it may be written by someone who felt that way about WOTC... but thats just speculation.
@@ZaylidinOfficial Im pretty sure a lot of Wotc ppl arent happy about the fornitification. I heard LSV and marshall talk about it in one of their Duskmourne episodes. This is clearly Hasbro and Wotc has to play along (for the most part).
@@devilbhrothesavage2807 idk if WotC is blameless either. But the people working on the actual cards are likely just passionate designers with no say in management.
How ironic that a Magic The Gathering card has that flavour text.
ANYWAY, HERE IS SPONGEBOB, THE FORK KNIFE BATTLEBUS, BLACKWASHED ARAGORN, AI GENERATED PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL THAT WE CERTAINLY DID NOT MAKE[x], AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST: ARTIFICIAL SCARCITY MARVEL COLLAB CARDS BOUGHT UP BY SCALPERS, YIPPEEEEE!!!
Basically. People are ruined by primary schools teaching perfectionism and aversion to mistakes/flaws...
And the 40/hour, hourly wage culture that is like 100 years old. Quantity of time in work only matters in things like active service and industry jobs. Other fields, the only thing that matters is the product, and the efficiency of low time for high quality is ideal.
School was designed to make us dumb
100 years ago people were working as slaves for 16 hours per day lool time efficiently always goes for self-employed people no matter
@@kurrwa 40 hour week was introduced in 1926. Get your history correct before trolling.
@@kurrwa 100 years ago was only 2 years off Henry Ford implemented 40 hour work weeks in his factories
it was also 38 years after the Haymarket Riot which was caused by The Illinois Legislature passing a law about mandatory 8 hour workdays
remember Henry Ford RESEARCHED 40 hour work weeks before he implemented them in his factories
you cant research something without it already existing
@@Moulwurf you think all people worked 40 hours per week? you are naive person lmao
Everything is poisoned by greed, because greed is poison.
Me - today (unless I`ve been posessed or something, then it might be someone else)
First thing I learned about playing in a band. The other side of the stage has no idea the work involved to fail
Very refreshing to see someone like you. really enjoy your videos, and I'm glad I found them.
The parts after reading out the flavour text hit me way harder than I was expecting a Josh Strife video to hit me sheeeeesh
It's amazing to hear stuff like this two times a week from people I look up to. Swen's speech at TGA conveyed a similar message. It was the best part of the whole ceremony. By far.
Well put. Time and effort have never been and will never be proportional to the results you're getting. You still have to put in at least some and hope for the best.
true, so many people want to be TH-camrs and putting so much work to get 0 from time invested xD
Its not ambition that creates greed.
Greed is part of the human condition.
Having wealth at all can feed your greed.
Your the safest content creator I know
Your the Keanu Reeves of content creators in a universe that hated the matrix.
Please continue to level up, most people actually did hate the matrix at first.
🥺
People working within entertainment should really take note here. It doesn't matter how much effort and love you put into your work if nobody is going to enjoy what you've made.
Value and Morale - something like 98% of ytb/streamer don't have anymore
Nicely done Josh! Keep it clean, Keep it Bri'ish, Keep it Human!
Such a good video. I love how your content is so meta about the industry of gaming and content creation. Glad I found this channel.
3:22 the worst part(I'm guessing): it's not always different people.
6:14 these sound like deeply held beliefs, I really respect that.
It does make me happy. Thank you.
Josh has put more effort on his stream's background than the average youtuber on their videos.
This man is innocent.
And that's why I quit my prestigious job at a well known bank and ran to a company with 69 people (nice) that noone's ever heard of.
Can't wait for Asmongold to react to this clip :)
He won't understand the words at the end.
Keeps living free in your head.
@@a-Stalk3rkeep living free in his crotch pocket. And gobble like a good little bitsh.
1:30 tell that to my exes, man...
Truth is, some of those “I put thousands of hours into this why no you”’people don’t get that for a content creator, they’re working.
Those thousands of hours John Average Gamer puts in are enjoyment, typically. Not being recorded, edited, etc. just them messing around for fun in their own off time.
They think it’s all about the game, they may be totally unaware of how involved editing video can get.
Lol; Guy is straight up telling his audience it could be so much worse!
its funny this phrase is in a magic card
Ngl almost teared up by the end
"I wanted to entertain people. As soon as I make that robotic, as soon as I make that corporate, as soon as I make that industrial... I lose something that I can't get back."
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why AAA game corporations will always eventually fall by the wayside, and why (most of the time) indie game developers shine. It's the difference between doing something for entertainment, and doing it for money. It's the difference between creativity, and greed. It's the difference between working on something you love, and being a slave to a corporate machine.
"Where ambition meets industry, passion is poisoned by greed," is not only 100% true, but it can be seen in the games industry going back twenty years. I would even argue that the concept is what led Atari to crash the market back in 1983 as well.
And yet despite the truth being everywhere, what has the industry learned? They've learned that "a single sandbag is a cool new way to hold back a tidal wave, and how dare anyone criticize us for thinking so."
The amount of things on screen is overwhelming
Josh you cant fool me with your words of wisdom, its all because your a Sauvé British man.
"I carry 23 great wounds, all got in battle. 75 men have I killed with my own hands in battle. I scatter, I burn my enemy's tents. I take away the flocks and herds. The Turks pay me a golden treasure yet I am poor, because I am a river to my people."
That quote is going on the list.
Another chapter on the Josh Strife BASED extended universe❤
Im so happy that yuris revenge is on his desktop
That example about judging a meal when someone spent all day cooking it for you....what a prick.
Sorry if it upset you, I#m not saying the effort wouldn't be appreciated, i'm saying the very real fact of 'customers and audience care about the result, not the process'.
Thats your takeaway from it? The analogy (that was apparently lost on you) was regarding receiving a produkt.I doubt you would walk into the restaurant, received a burnt to a crisp inedible food, then ate it and complimented the chef after. Neither should you.
"Look at all this stuff! I haven't seen that one since the 90s". -Ifyaknow, yaknow.
makes me feel old...
Awesome video, Josh! Love little Clippy there in the corner. Perfectly put! Never become exclusively a reaction-streamer! While some reaction-content can be great (for example people stepping out of their comfort zone watching something that they would never normally watch), if it would become your primary content, it would be terrible! Better slow and steady growth than jumping on trends.
the activate windows bit in the bottom right is hilarious
Clearly Josh needs to start putting out monthly videos that just give audiences an idea of what he's working on and when it's coming out
The issue is that the audience hungers for fast food so they ignore the great homemade meals you can make for them.
I believe it is a worthy goal to try to elevate people's palate to something that is better for them.
That's an honorable attitude. Most content creators just react to many videos other created and put effort in it, Asmongold as an example. But they just give their oppinion to the stuff others put work in. That's the lowest form of content you can create.
It's really lazy but the people watch it like mad because we are a consumer society.
I appreciate much more high quality content than reaction videos. That's the reason i unsubscribed to all youtubers who did that because it annoyed me after some time.
I love the layout
pretty good 'wallpaper'
Edit: its missing the soundsystem007 soundtrack tho
in case you dont know, you can pause the game now btw...
love the content as always mate...
"Are you not entertained?!"
Oh my goodness, the nostalgia on that desktop!
1:40 - That reminds me of an old (probably apocryphal) story about Henry Ford, who was having problems with a huge GE generator in his plant. After his in-house engineers couldn't figure it out, he eventually called in General Electric.
Charles Steinmetz, the GE expert who arrived, rejected all help and only asked for a pencil, notebook, and a cot to sleep on. For 2 days and nights he listened to the generator and scribbled down equations. After two days he asked for a ladder, climbed up, and made a chalk mark. He told Ford's engineers to take the plate he marked off and replace 16 coil windings. The skeptical engineers did, and the generator worked like a charm.
Ford was thrilled until he got the $10,000 invoice! Ford balked at the figure and wanted an itemized bill. Steinmetz sent back the following:
Making chalk mark on generator: $1
Knowing where to make mark: $9,999
Ford paid.
This is just the twitch version of one of those tv channels running in airport lounges
Josh's lack of greed sickens me
You don't even need thumbnails with this style of content.
4:10 Never thought I'd hope for josh to retire
You're not realy paying for the time you get back. You pay for the product. This is in line with Josh's statement about cooking meals. It doesn't matter how long it takes if its shit. It matters if the final product is worth your money.
Magic got really freaking expensive. I play premodern now so I can use my old decks.
I stopped buying about 2 years ago. The amount of new releases has really burned me out. I haven't bought boosters or intro decks in a decade or more.
Holy crap that Magic card is POIGNANT
i respect you man. Sadly, you can't live on my respect. If you could, you'd be rich by now!
Great video, gets my sub!
I found my home. Here to stay.
What a nice guy Josh is..
big 2000 internet vibs. I love it.✌
Why am I feeling a bit of disappointment that this is not a Blackcleave Cliffs from Scars of Mirrodin but Phyrexia, all will be One?
TH-cam is such a young market place I wonder how it will evolve in the future? monetizations changes everything how people making videos so passion can be lost easily
Such wisdom from a window-mode streamer!
A comment of appreciation to feed the mighty yet malicious algorithm.
what a cool dude.
I'm afraid of this title in regards to Nightreign
poe2 has turned Josh into the most spiteful person ever (and I am for it
i hate that this also reflects in the job market
Managers who don't know any better think that because I finished something in 30 minutes that it took the last 4 people 2 hours means it's worse. It gets doubled down if you make a mistake, because instead of thinking that the previous employee was incompetent, they think you cut corners.
Then they pile more work on you because you have more free time, and then you leave because they don't compensate for it financially. You leave, and then in comes a new person that takes 2 hours to do the same task again, and your effort never gets acknowledget.
Yes I am upset, how can you tell?
I quickly learned to do the bare minimum at jobs because effort wasn't rewarded. The opposite - you get rewarded with more work and your effort to do more becomes your new expected norm.
You are a resource to these people. Only that, not human in any capacity. A coal. They burn you out and get new sucker in your place.
Respect!
Unexpected IT Crowd reference
be attractive and have an accent liberal white American women like, got it
Classic Bonzai buddy.
I can't wait for Asmongold to react to this
Fair
You aren't paying for the 30 minutes someone spends doing a job that would take you 100, you're paying for the years of experience that led up to that 30 minute job
Moments like this make me realize how much josh influenced the own content I make.
Do you pick your talking points based on the games background music or does the games background music lead you to your talking points? 6:02
Played MTG when i was a kid, was absolutely astonished/disappointed when i learned there were transformers and fortnite and all sorts of cash grab rubbish in it now.
based and whelming
whelming and based
Based
Ι love the heavy hitting title in combination with the solemn thumbnail, preparing us to be showered with the truth of the universe. This is an exquisite example of clickbait as an art form.
Loved the stream mr Clippy, not sure about the animation of the talking head you put up left of you, though. I don't know what he was going on about.
I keep missing the stream; what's the rhyme again?
Where content?
you know he's talked to Asmon about reaction content to know the numbers behind it and considering thats all asmon does now
I believe he specifically asked Asmon to stop reacting to his stuff behind scenes.
@@anaguma90 i believe this too. No confirmation anywhere I've seen but it feels right.
How to be a good streamer? Easy, just don't be a bad one :).