Musings
Making Content “Better” Is For Me, Not Thee
Creators often chase better cameras, mics, lighting, and editing, but better production does not always mean better content. Here’s why audience experience matters more.
Musings
Paternity Leave and Pokémon Gen3
Is it 2004 or 2026? Picture this: It's 6:30 am on a Wednesday. I'm sitting on the couch, freshly showered, trapped under my sleeping 3 month old son, watching Stargate SG1 and playing Pokémon Fire Red and Leaf Green. Besides my newborn, this is almost
Musings
Quality vs Quantity - The Creator Dilemma
I was raised in the era of Youtube where Let's Play content ruled the screens; folks like Chuggaaconroy, Datai, Lueroi, and so many others were pumping out content on the daily, and it seemed like it would never end. And the level of quality behind some of these
Lessons learned from a casual retro collector
Collecting retro media sounds incredibly sexy in practice: dusty shelves lined with VHS tapes, long forgotten boxes marked "Nintendos" in the attic of your childhood home, rare cartridges in pristine condition, that awesome feeling when you finally score a copy of Golden Sun still in its original box
Behind the Scenes - Upcoming Video
So here's a fun little piece of the puzzle that is "what the hell am I doing with this blog?" I'm not the kind of creator that wants to just make every video he works on a mystery until it goes live. I'
Parenthood Stories
Video Production Post-Move
I've been making videos on Youtube for a long time, off and on, and under channel names you've probably never heard of. I've also just been in media production overall for almost has of my life. Taking into account I'm 34 this
Retro
Stagnation: Where ideas go to die?
Have you ever been sitting on a project (video, essay, podcast, housework... anything really) and just keep reviewing and revising every single detail of it over and over and over again until you hit the point of two years of work for something that won't even take a
Retro
Fatherhood and the Handheld Gaming System
Let me start off with one quick fact: I have been on the "physical hardware over emulation" train since 2020, to the point where it has for sure been annoying my friends and wife. And now, at the start of 2026, that hasn't really changed... much.