Skyehoppers

🧬New video!🧬 Pokémon X and Y were for the most part more of the same, but still had some strange ambitions under the surface. What happens to these odd games when you try to take them seriously? And what is Pokémon, as a whole, capable of? Link ⬇️

Im on b sky as "skyehoppers" but idk if ill use it. might make a tumblr. definitely will still be on youtube. this is rough.

1. fuck 2. you have to live. organize locally. i've finally been doing some of that this year and it's so doable. 3. done with this platform for good. probably irredeemable already, certainly moreso coming up.

it was inevitably naive of me to believe my cohort would be the ones to enact the necessary change. wow, how common we turned out to be. the necessary change is still possible, but it will take more.

in 2016, at age 18, i genuinely believed that things would be okay because my generation had it straight and it was only a matter a time til we had control. that is now repudiated. time will not be enough. it will demand work and fury.

Democrats invited this man to Washington, defended him as he committed war crimes, and voted to send him even more weapons despite the electoral risks — and this is his response

You're not gonna die. Because tomorrow you will be alive. And you will make a pledge to get stronger every day. And you will keep that pledge. You will bleed through honor and discipline. And you will become so strong that they may never threaten you. You are going to do this.

that's me

Our newest video is out now. It's about antinatalism, reproductive justice, and the nature of suffering. I think it's the best thing we've ever made. Watch here: youtu.be/OeADcAaeDAg

Pixel a Day has reached 20,000 subscribers, hooray! Come celebrate with me on Twitch this Sunday as I stream World of Goo 2. Europeans are in luck, I've gone with a nicer time for you. Sorry Americanos

@jeremystewart9 thank you! but I actually have a new video coming out in about a week! in the conclusion i was talking about how i probably wont make any *pokemon* videos for a while, but I have plenty of other new vids to make dont worry :)

@skyehoppers finally saw your XY video and loved it sadly its gonna be your last video for awhile but I'll wait till your return

i think i just wrote a video thats actually less than 40 minutes long. everyone please clap i needed this.

@LiamTriforce Whoa! that could be incredibly useful for me, thank you so much for sharing

For the BOTW and TOTK videos, I use a plugin for OBS called "Infowriter," which allows me to bind hotkeys for timestamping specific events in a recording or stream. I manually label each timestamp afterwards, which refreshes me on the game and my experience playing it.

i love art so much. i love music and movies and photos and games and sculptures and paintings and it all gives meaning to life. thank you.

havent done either yet but i can feel it. in the distance

creating a linkedin feels like admitting i'll one day die

@wizawhat ah, interesting. did you also change the title?

@skyehoppers I suppose here, like you said it doesn't quite confirm either way. I just know from experience with my latest video, that it immediately began performing better after beginning my test, which made me think it was serving more impressions skewed to one thumb throughout the test

Heads up for non-huge youtubers! Yunning youtube's new built-in A/B testing on videos that dont get a ton of viewers will have a ton of noise and may yield a wholly inaccurate result. The three thumbnails below are completely identical

@Lostfutures1 It still might be! With smaller sample size you might just need to run the test a few times to trust the result. Which does suck, but it's probably better than the previous way of desperately trying to parse graphs that dont actually give you the most useful data

@skyehoppers Thanks for doing these tests! Thought the new system would be helpful :(

@wizawhat Ok so I think I got that idea from the second paragraph pictured, from this page (support.google.com/youtube/answer…) But now that I re-read it it's not exactly cut-and-dry. Hmmm. I couldve sworn there was somewhere else where they guaranteed equal impressions but I cant find it now.

@skyehoppers Can you show me where they've said that? Upon more thought I feel like the results here are coming from small sample size of impressions. IN THAT CASE though, it is very weird and bad that it concluded the test after just three days.

@wizawhat According to their own methodology, each thumbnail continues to be shown entirely randomly and evenly, regardless of if one is clearly pulling ahead. If it does start showing one more than another (which this result does resemble) then theyre lying about how it works...

@skyehoppers ...content more than others. Since all thumbs are the same, there's nothing changing the experience for the viewer, and as one thumbnail starts to snowball due to a random viewer connecting with the content more, it will select that thumbnail to serve more impressions