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A Beautiful New Era! Seeking the Path of Writer NOT E-Celeb 電攣暗壕

🕑 Added 2024-10-05 06:56:44 +0000 UTC

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The Electric Underground

That s extremely kind to hear! I'm doing my best so hopefully it's work that's somewhat meaningful ha

Paulo H

"am i even talented enough to pull it off?" you? hell yeah, no doubts over here. you are the only guy i'm paying patreon for, actually i made an account just to pay you lol

Hugh Mungus

I kinda wanna be a dick and request one of Tim Rogers Action Button reviews. 😂

Michael Del Polito

Hi there everyone. Hope all is well. My submission is a video by Player Essence. I've been really interested to know how you felt about the channel in general. I think this video would be a great companion to some of your other videos whilst still allowing you to analyze the critique itself. https://youtu.be/TWUc0wDbURQ?si=ditu2eQ_PU-y5pVh

Taze Roiu

OK got it. Yes. Like metadata can be said to be results of statistical analysis of raw data. Game critique in it's raw form being meaningless without breaking down the innate correlations and applying sigma rules to construe useful extractions of critical points for viewing. Tieing it all together with graphics. Interesting.

The Electric Underground

Yes absolutely! So "meta" means a game within a game. So if you think about the "meta" of a fighting game, that means what is the game that you actually play in the game. So in street fighter 5, the "meta" of the game was this mini wake-up game you played with shimmies ha. So for the show "metacritique" this means the critique of the critique ha.

The Electric Underground

Or as my son would say: "Electric Above the Grass!" He calls my channel Electric Under the Grass which is really cute.

The Electric Underground

I haven't! I just looked up the trailer and it looks really awesome, at least from what I can see! When does it release, it says it was supposed to release this summer? Has it been delayed?

The Electric Underground

Oh AVGN is a fun one! added to the list!

The Electric Underground

That YT writing a novel is really interesting to me! I'll have to take a look at it because yes, I think it's a much cooler direction to take a youtube career than just aiming to be an online personality only. I def like the idea of creating art that lasts beyond just the will and whim of the youtube alg ha.

The Electric Underground

Oh super interesting! Definitely will add it to the list.

The Electric Underground

Ha yeah networking is often more exhausting than simply working on new material a lot of the time. Idaho county fairs can be pretty fun at times, I remember years ago buying the entire series of Sopranos on DVD for like $4. Also buying chickens at the fair is pretty funny. i remember as a kid I really wanted a chicken because I played a bunch of harvest moon and thought it would be awesome to start raising livestock for some reason.

The Electric Underground

Hey playa! Yes doing very well I'm doing my final round of editing for my silent Hill 2 vid today, it ll premier tomorrow :-) yes I have played it right when it came out, like the day it launched lol. Back then it was kinda janky tbh, but I ve heard that they have been working on it and improving it a lot so yes! I do plan on resisting it and actually reviewing it soon ha

Florida sucks

hey Mark, hope you're well. just wondering, have you ever played NGS2 Black, the overhaul mod for sigma 2 that basically turns it into OG2+extras? really think you should if you haven't, it's basically the definitive way to play sigma 2 https://www.nexusmods.com/ninjagaidenmastercollection/mods/386 master ninja in particular is very fun in this mod

RetroMan

If you think about it selling game in a flash drive- that's basically the new Nintendo 'cartridge' right. Also the networking thing, I spend a lot of time on LinkedIn and it's just... you developed an allergy from it. Also Also the Idaho County fair, I'm a bit jealous. Our Russian Bazaars you get knives, bootlegs but chickens instead of guns.

Tomphonse

My metacritique submission is this video as a case study for a type of critique Ive seen become very popular. That is a style of review where one essentially condenses their entire let's play of a game's campaign down to 20-50mins and then critiques the various gameplay elements of the game as they occur. I think it's become very popular because it narrativizes critique https://youtu.be/Izb5tv9bfSU?si=YDDsUoDzYi-7HYFU

Vullgarity

I'm reading a novel called Shadow Dream Girl by Bennett White. A debut novel from a YTer who has amazing writing skills. It shows in the novel. Very good American Literary Fiction. Just independently published on Kindle and paperback using amazon's print on demand. Supposedly took 3 years on-and-off and a little help and it happened. Shoot, even Mattheematosis is working on a game now instead of videos. So larger careers are in reach of niche YTer who lives off of patreon. No wonder the panel thing seems pointless. The interest is in putting real works out there.

Андрей Лыков

Critique of the craft of critique, i think he meant something like that

Steve-Fiction

I love the idea of metacritique, and my submission is AVGN's "What is the best Castlevania?" from this year.

Masamune7772

Hey Mark have you seen this game Earthion? New genesis shmup with extremely good graphics and music by yuzo koshiro

HPPrinter

Electric Surface era

Taze Roiu

I do apologise for noobyness and maybe I'm not listening hard enough... My guess without resorting to search is it a Greek word for unseen, background, underlaying. People throw it around these days like confetti. One thinks it often looses it's meaning.

The Electric Underground

Lol that is great, I ll add it to the list

The Electric Underground

Yes exactly 😂 I'll order some copies of ccwe and slap them in a case and grade them a 11000 rating, 2k each and I'll throw in a free bootleg sticker heh. Yeah I think we all have gone on this journey with physical media where it started as really fun, but then it became insanely expensive and commercialized. The fun era was finding stuff in the wild at thrift stores

Spiders_STG

Soulja Boy BRAID review

prkay

Listen Mark can you send me an autographed copy of Crimzon Clover so I can frame it in acrylic and sell it at Shmup Slam for $2k? Great episode man and yeah I’ve definitely done a 180 on physical collecting over the years. The value of the games I already have is nostalgia from being a kid, and the desire to collect “what I couldn’t buy as a kid” lost its luster quickly. I’m much more selective about buying physical (usually only older games) nowadays, and it’s mainly for speed running on a CRT. Assuming I don’t have a flash cart or something lol.

The Electric Underground

Oh I have seen his vids! I came across him when he had a tiny channel and was talking about cormac McCarthy. That s a funny comparison because even though I think we are extremely different in terms of our personality and tone, he does have a lot of passion for the topics he covers and a free spirited approach I can't help but find endearing ha

The Electric Underground

On the list :-)

Spaghedward1

Speaking of writing has anyone here watched the YouTuber Write Conscious? He kind of reminds me of Mark though Mark seems much more humble and down to Earth.

PS1APE

My suggestion for the Metacritique is "Does Astrobot Basically Play Itself? | Design Delve" from Second Wind. It's not the kind of game you'd be interested in, but the way they talk about game design might be fun to pick apart.

Taze Roiu

Can we get a TEU official definition of 'meta'? This one escapes me 🤔

The Electric Underground

Great suggestion! I'll def add it to the list because I really liked doom 2016 when it came out and beat it, but it s been a while since I've played it. But I really like it s overall shift it s had on the fps genre in many ways

SegFault

I would absolutely love to see a meta critique of IGN’s somewhat famous 7 (lol) of Doom 2016. That’s also a game you should review sometime tbh. You’ve said you like it, so it’d be cool to hear what you think are its strengths (personally I love both of the new dooms and they’re some of my favorite games).

The Electric Underground

It s gonna be awesome!

The Electric Underground

I m sure I will! I often agree with a lot of the deeper points matt makes

Florida sucks

i think you will possibly find a lot of common ground with this video in particular but maybe im wrong

Vrenna

Looking forward to the next tier for your patreon :-)

The Electric Underground

Yeah it was an awesome time! The trip gave me a lot to think about personally and professionally which is great :-) Thank you again for being an awesome host!

The Electric Underground

Nice!! It s on the list

The Electric Underground

Yeah mattosis will be really fun to discuss because he does have great writing but we have a somewhat different view in design and how we approach our communication, so that will be great material I think :-)

The Electric Underground

Thanks really kind of you my dude! ❤️ Yes the $8 tier should be a great way to improve the stability of the channel financially while making great extra content too

The Electric Underground

It will lead to some interesting discussion and thought I think, which is the overall goal :-) and yes hopefully it will be useful info for people tuning in that are interested in critical writing

The Electric Underground

Yeah I think that s a direction I want to steer clear from and instead focus my overall goals on further creative output like improved vids, writing books (like my dmc3 book) and hopefully some small scale indie game devving

The Electric Underground

Nice! I ll put it on the list for the pilot ep

The Electric Underground

Yeah that could be a good approach as well! We are in the pilot stage so yeah maybe I could have the patrons select from a list, that s a great idea!

Patrick Basedman

About the Meta Critique, have you considered picking a set of a bunch of reviews yourself and having people vote on those? I’m pretty sure if you just picked any of those infamous reviews from X-play, IGN, Gamespot, Kotaku, or any of those legacy video game journalism sites, nobody would be concerned about spawning drama.

Max Miller

Cool idea for Meta Critique! I'm gonna suggest this video that came out recently about the first Mega Man game. https://youtu.be/K0KN5OGTkxk?feature=shared

Eduardo Aquinta

No, defo not E-Celeb please, might as well get yourself to Georgia as soon as you can and start playing the fiddle!

SanNevo

Looking forward to the metacritics! Hope is serves as a guide on how to properly form an opinion and review games.

Tim French

Can't wait to listen. Been hoping you'd add a higher tier for a while. Not because I wanted more extras, but because you deserve more of my money.

Florida sucks

dunkey really sucks, just had to say that. so goddamn unfunny, no idea how this guy still has fans. his style of making videos is so damn dated and his "critiques" if you can even call them that are soaked in this insufferable millennial post irony. plus he's a white guy doing a blaccent which is automatically weird as hell anyway, would love to see you take a look at matthewmatosis' Lost Soul Arts of Demon Souls video, whether before or after you yourself take a look at Demon Souls.

Viewtifu1

I'm really glad you came out and got so much out of the trip and expo! It was a lot of fun to show you around and host, I enjoy being able to do that for friends and family. Thanks for being up for going to the show, I know it's a bit of a leap of faith to come out but it seemed to be a fitting start for your new era!

Fisken

Review suggestion: Recommending The Wonderful 101 - by Matthewmatosis

The Electric Underground

Yes I think it's going to be a great addition that not only sheds some insight into the writing analysis process for the patrons, but also for myself as well. :-) I am excited to see what general trends start to appear in these metacritiques and how other reviews might relate to each other in unexpected ways

RC

Also glad to see the transition to full time seems smooth 💪

RC

The new show sounds great! I've seen too many good critics burnout of the space. So to see that you're taking the idea of criticism in general, as seriously as the critiques you dish out yourself, is refreshing. Not to mention an interesting avenue that fits well with everything your channel has been about thus far. I'm sure there'll be some fun one's to examine too, haha.

Danny Abbasi

I’ll step up if you like as UK t shirt distributor 🫡 DM me?

The Electric Underground

Oh yes they should be automatically uploaded into one! If you look on the patron page there should be an RSS feed you can put into something like pocketcasts and stuff like that. Here are some instructions https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/360041347732-How-to-use-your-audio-RSS

The Electric Underground

Fun times! I was gonna record it before Portland but then thought I d have more interesting material if I saved it till right after my Portland trip :-)

The Electric Underground

Oh that is interesting! Yeah I m gonna think about some kind of system like this for sure.

The Electric Underground

Yes no kidding! You know maybe next time I can find a supporter in the UK and somehow mail them the shirts at a lower cost or yes like a group order somehow, that s a cool idea

The Electric Underground

I think metacritique is going to be a great way for me to engage in more unique discussions around game critique that should be really interesting, because like I said I am also trying to get inside the mind of the other writers and reviews I discuss :-)

The Electric Underground

Exactly ha, they ve been a staple of the channel for years and I think they work really well.

Sky_Katchr_Gaming

Yeah don't f with the patreon end credits. Haha! They are your producers and you're the director.

Trick_DX

Love the idea for the new Patreon show. Since watching your videos I started paying more attention to the games I play and writing my own thoughts on them. So I look forward to learn more about your thought process and see what I can apply to my own writing.

Danny Abbasi

Really want one of those shirts but can’t justify the shipping costs! Maybe a few UK supporters could do a group order? (I could mail them on the people here)

tatsudon

You could have voting periods once a month, but let votes accumulate over time. That way something consistently popular like VJ can win at some point.

PS1APE

Hell yeah I've been waiting for this

Fisken

Somewhere on the Patreon page there is a option that allows you to connect the episode feed to Spotify. You might need to look for the option through the Patreon website and not the app.