Remoctopus

At some point I realised they got a hot spoonfeeder for this season, and the thirst levels suddenly became worrying high

Watching season 2 of Culinary Class Wars and praying this doesn’t awaken anything in me

Joel email me all your Pluribus thoughts! I also have many!!

How are you doing this?!!!? I demand to know

Tales are told of a hero who slid so fast they actually got to the bottom

Pim’s correct you are missing out on some of the most poorly written cut scenes you’ll ever witness in your life

OK but I’m putting a giant waterslide on it

The great thing is that it ticks over at 11am. So i get to be 1st on the leaderboard until everybody else wakes up

I'm still figuring out the strats. It's only up from here I think

My first try

The lighting was incredible
The crowd work was excellent
Justin is a beast
The Celine Dion cover was unexpected, but like everything else it went hard
I am very happy

Indeed. And we were rocking til the sun went down no less

Fuck yes

ICYMI

I had a mate Ben who bragged about being the original “Benjamin” in WoW. No 1s, no 3s, just Benjamin. I’ve never seen anyone so proud

Some people want to meet their favourite actor or pop idol. I just want to meet the former finance minister of Greece

Cyrpus

But I'll continue to do it. From the very beginning of Pixel a Day the aim was always to put something into the world that is special, high-quality and uniquely mine. If I were to start using GenAI to cut corners and remove that personal touch, I may as well shut the whole channel down.

I like to think that these magical little moments are appreciated by my audience. I don't know if they are. I certainly don't think a casual YT viewer will ever understand how much love, time, sweat and tears go into making these videos.

Hours of tedious work was put in for that moment, and it was worth it. You cannot rush this process, or outsource it to AI. It only comes from putting substantial amounts of your own time and energy getting up close and personal with the material. So even that could not be replaced.

...I find incredible resonances that make for an absolutely magical moment. In my Outer Wilds video, for example, I stumbled upon this quote while scrubbing through footage - "The universe is, and we are" - which provided a perfect echo to a clip I'd played earlier from Alone: "Nature just is."

But even there, scrubbing through clips is an important part of the creative process and I wouldn't give it up. Believe it or not, every video I make I scrub through every single second of recorded footage I have - dozens of hours' worth. It mostly yields nothing, but occasionally...

It's honestly difficult to think of anything that GenAI could usefully do for me re: the channel. The closest thing would be video editing I guess. Finding and inserting clips can be fairly boring, and theoretically AI that could do that might save time on what is largely "drudge" work -

I guess I'll leave the possibility open that there might be some tiny task that GenAI would save me a lot of time on, like editing an image or something, in which case I'd disclose that - but essentially you can safely expect that there will be no GenAI used in any Pixel a Day work. (3/3)

Having an idea and fully exploring it (the essence of my channel) involves a level of originality and personal expression that GenAI can and will never achieve, so GenAI is fundamentally useless to me there. Moreover, I enjoy the creative process. If I didn't there'd be no channel. (2/3)

I suppose now is as good a time as any to clarify this, but I've never used GenAI for any Pixel a Day videos or articles, in any capacity. I am a much better writer than ChatGPT is, and there is nothing it could do to help me with the process of coming up with a video idea. (1/3)

Kat (Pixel a Day) – Medium Read writing from Kat (Pixel a Day) on Medium. I make video essays on Youtube (Pixel a Day) where I critically analyse games and how they make me feel. I also write blog posts and articles.

Very cool! If you're ever in need of guests, I do games writing on Medium (kat-pixeladay.medium.com) and freelance (e.g., uppercutcrit.com/pink-squiggl...) and I talk good about games as well (youtube.com/pixeladay)