im gonna put some stuff in here - and once it gets big ill prolly split it off. i know i already have posts about this but fuck that --- be spontaneous and clean up later. when it comes to architectural decisions at least. for creative endeavours.

Monument Mythos

Firstly, go check it out . If you spoil yourself, still check it out. It's a big whole thing.

Okay so, let me just get my Bering Strait:

• Season 1: The one which ends with Freedom being sick 'n tired of being trapped. You have the Air Force Angel, the infected Rushmore, Washington getting stretched, all of that.
• Season 2: Everything ends - which... yeah. A lot of stuff happens up to that point - and it's a whole fuck of a lot - but George Washington breaks out of the Earth and turns the entire universe into a corner dimension. There's explanations and a whole cause and effect chain here but you're gonna have to watch to figure that out. Though maybe I should save this for
• The Nixonverse: what the fuck. okay -- this is a whole separate canon and references to it will be made, but it's just a different universe. Do universes interact? Yes. But the story of this one is simple. Nixon lives on the moon and split himself into 3 - the Queen of the Lunarians, Last Son of Alcatraz, and the D-Day Knight.
• Season 3: Heard of Cthonaut A? They just went up to the Angel, told them to just divide, and this caused some errant particles of theirs to go back to just went that little world-ending conflict happened and make past them tell Freedom to kill them so the universe doesn't end. That's this universe. It has a good ending. Well, bittersweet - but I'll count it after all the tragedy. Plus, you should really watch it.
• Alternate American Folklore: Genuinely what the fuck.

Okay so, bit of a disclaimer, I'd already seen S1 through S3 earlier. A long time ago, so I forgot the little details, but AAF knocked me away. It is basically a precursor of the whole entire series, but it is also very much its own thing. Basically, what if you had the mythos, but instead of being applied to monuments, it's applied to the time that America uh... did its whole genocide. Manifest Destiny - is a very diplomatic way of putting it. This one starts with Columbus by the way, and the first weirdest thing you hear of is the Ship Jester - which good luck with having to keep that in mind.

Also, Abraham Lincoln listens to music to access the sublime which lets his head fly everywhere.

That is technically a spoiler. But are you telling me you wouldn't want to check out the actual video to figure out how the fuck that makes any sense? And if it doesn't, well... I'd definitely want to check out the series at least.

Anyways I finished it, but if I'm completely honest I need to rewatch it again, because it's all somewhat of a blur to me. I loved it, but damn is it dense. Which leaves me with this - what next?

Well, according to the official playlist , I'm now at 57 of 75. 19 videos left. A ways to go, and what a path that lies ahead.

• The Trinity Desk Project: I remember seeing some of these videos a long time ago and thought they were so cool - but then they got disappeared, before coming back and becoming a part of the overall Mythos. The first video raises a couple of interesting questions, such as what the fuck do you mean there are invisible child corpses inside this desk.
• President Dean: The Series: Which I know absolutely nothing about and have no idea what in the hell to expect.
• The Modern Day: Straight up a fuckin movie which is 1:52:30 and the only thing I know is that Robert Pattinson becomes President all while this thing plays which I really do love. So I can't wait to hear that music.

Deltarune

what the fuck is the weird route going to be. i've seen only fragments, never a video - only ever in thumbnails. i know of only two things:

1. Some of the music, like one for Happy Town which actually does sound pretty happy when I forget the fact that it's a weird route only theme which very much fucks up the vibes I read from it from a joyful walk through town into- wait hold on no nevermind, 1:40 afterwards has a chilling breath sound thing loop in the background. Gee I wonder what the fuck THAT is doing there.
2. Something happens at the lake. All I know is that Noelle is at the lake, Kris is a couple of steps away, and I think she gets in the lake? Which well, if I had to guess how that could go dark, well I mean it's pretty clear.

which you know seems like im spoiled, oh noelle tries to drown herself or something - but considering Happy Town is a theme and how Chapter 5's start is basically dependent on Noelle, the whole road from there to the lake is just... what the fuck? Not to mention that I've seen videos go upwards of 20 minutes. What the fuck happens in this route.

anyways that's a question for future me who's beaten the chapter. current me is still wondering a couple of things:

• Is Flowery a villain? I mean originally I was put off by how domineering he was over Asgore but he also does seem actually genuine in wanting to keep Asgore happy. Problem being that we need to close the fountain. It's kinda reminiscent of Tenna's thing in a way.
• What are Asgore's notes about? We know he was investigating something from Ch. 4 not to mention the direct reference in Ch. 5 which is unmissable. It must have something to do with Dess' disappearance, and considering the guy knows about the shards, my money's on him having fought the Knight, failed, and losing his position based on either self-sabotage over his failure, or y'know, he failed to find the daughter of the Mayor which also explains it.
• Though then why is she supporting him? My best thought; she effectively migrated him from working as a police chief to being a private investigator for this whole case. He's helping gather information which in turn is being used by Carol to further some plan to either revive or meet with Dess. Except if the Roaring Knight is Dess this entire theory falls apart - especially since it seems extremely evident that Kris is working with the Knight based on the whole coughing which happens if you no hit them. The lowered-damage alone could've convinced me that they simply knew who the Knight was, but the cough tells me they're also teamed up.
• Which then goes into well, whatever the fuck. Honestly I could try and form a theory on Deltarune all day, there's so much to think about - but then we're going beyond Ch. 5. Maybe I'll just write something up in the future - trying to make sense of stuff, but not in a MatPat style way where I pore over the details - moreso just... vibes-based and update from there.

Ch. 5 is fucking awesome and anyone who's disappointed by it is a fuckin bigmac - as if we were gonna get something sad and miserable here. Have you not played Mother 3? Ch. 6 onward is where shit gets really dark ya dipshits. Ch. 5 is still just a straight up adventure.

Still extremely wild that Toby turned it into a platformer with bullet patterns. I mean what the actual fuck, what kind of GameMaker magic did he have to pull to make that work?

Music is also awesome and inspiring me to learn how to make my own. I got Bitwig so, maybe in a couple of years I'll be a master or something.

Umineko

So, we've finally reached the point where I'm actually interested in what comes next. Of course though that's not enough (hi Limbus Company), but considering the things that do keep me away are missing (hi gacha elements), I definitely want to continue it once I have some slots open.

I'm guessing that big reveal at the end is going to slowly (might not be that slowly) kill off the family and, presumably leave Battler alive since he's the main character in all those memes where BEATORIIIIICIIIII devastates him and he shits his pants or something.

Glad I powered through the starting bit but let's just say it took a couple months after my first time playing Umineko to return, because dear god the introduction is absolute torture. You know what wasn't torture? That little conflict between Krauss and his siblings where they pressure him significantly into a deal to avoid having fraudulent bits come to light - which suddenly pulls a complete goddamn reversal when Krauss just strips down every single one of his siblings for the fuck ups they've done.

Then there's the whole y'know. Maria thing which leads up to the first BIG punch to the face.

SO yeah I'm interested. At some point I might do more MICROs for that but there's also a LOT to cover for MICROs.

Experiment Microbyss

I feel like it's going well. My metrics for well are simply that I maintain a good daily output. And well, I've managed to do that, even if I got close sometimes. However, now I managed to build up a bit of a backlog, to the point where we're now multi-staging it, where we upload in batches, and prepare metadata/schedule in batches. The main benefit I've been getting from this one is that it actually works. I like it when I see a new micro-video of mine - enough to where I actively try to keep up the queue. And because of that, the editor stays open - and I have much less friction to working on other videos. I just need the motivation now, and honestly even pending non-micro videos, the micro videos are a good way of getting bigger videos out. And the queue makes it so where if I build it up far enough, the micro-compilation can come out before all the micro footage comes out - at which point, micro or not, it wouldn't even matter.

All in all though, I'm glad. There's now quite a lot of stuff I'm working on in parallel - fallout new vegas, limbus company, corru.observer, and yume nikki. I also have more umineko footage now, so that's there as well. Plus, the thumbnails are fun to work on. It basically turns Microbyssal into an art gallery of sorts.

I'll say it's a success - but not fully. I want to give it more time first. Started on 12 Jun, it's now 2 Aug as of writing this part, I'd like to make it to 3 months at least. Then a year and so on. Who knows, we might go >1 per day at some point.