Procedural Generated Pictures, Plans and Polls. (December Update)

Hey everyone!

I hope all of you exceptionally extraordinary people are doing extraordinarily great today.

The Mario Wonder video is online and I thought it’s a good time to share some of my upcoming plans, as well as get a bit of feedback from you wonderful people on where to take the channel next!

But first the Mario video.
It looks like YouTube’s algorithm god released us from our dark prison.
Hooray - the blood offerings did the trick!
The Mario video pulled more views within three hours than the Outer Wilds video did in its lifetime, which is great!
Good algorithm! Have a ritual blood sacrifice!

However, there was a bit of controversy in the comments of the Mario Wonder video.

Some people weren’t too happy about my use of a bunch of AI-generated pics during the Mario movie discussion, so I thought it might be best to address this.

My general idea when using the AI art during the Mario movie part was to mirror the Mario movie with it.
You know, the Mario movie is a bit of a soulless calculating product that uses art as a means to fulfill financial ends, instead of displaying art for the value of art itself.
I liked the idea of making this point while using AI art because, you know, AI art is soulless, artificially created art that is used to make it easier to “create” art as a product.

There is always a financial aspect to art.
This financial aspect is why the Mario movie is the way it is.
And AI-generated art is kind of the ultimate perversion of the financial aspect of art.

It’s also why there are missing eyeballs and hands that look like claws in the pics used in the video.

I wanted those pictures to be obviously artificial because at least in my mind there is a bit of a parallel between the artificiality of the Mario movie and the artificiality of AI art.

So that was my line of thought when I put the AI art into the video, but looking back at it from a distance and after reading a bit of feedback, I think I may not have handled that especially gracefully.

There are huge unsolved copyright concerns when it comes to AI art, as AI is arguably trained with the stolen work of every artist who ever lived.
When it is ethical to use AI-generated content is still an open debate that will only become fiercer the more mainstream AI tools become.

Looking back at it, I probably should have either addressed the parallel I was thinking of directly in the video, or not use AI art at all.
You know, if I want to draw a parallel I probably should actually draw it.

So I understand why some people aren’t too happy about the AI art in the video and I’ll be more careful with this going forward. Though I honestly never intended to use much AI art going forward - not only due to ethical concerns but also because I like my humans to have five fingers.

I'll also pin the text above under the video because, as some of you have rightfully pointed out, the AI art shouldn't be without context in the video.

Okay, so that's the first thing.
The second thing: My plans for the future.

The very next thing I want to tackle is one of the From Software games.
I’ll wait for the game awards show to see if Elden Ring’s DLC gets a release date there.
If it does I’ll tackle Elden Ring next otherwise it will be Bloodborne.

That video is going to take a bit longer than the past ones, because of the Holidays and because I need to take it a bit slower for a week or two since I’m a bit exhausted - so expect that video in the middle of January.

So what’s in store for next year?

There are a bunch of videos that I want to make, which I expect most of you are interested in. We will probably discuss the TTYD remake, there will very likely be a new 3D Mario next year alongside Nintendo’s next console and we’ll probably look back at Odyssey too while at it. We’ll continue to discuss the Zelda games and there is a shimmer of hope that we will tackle Silksong as well.

Most of those topics are videos that I expect you wonderful people to be interested in.

However, I’d also like to tackle a bunch of other things that are a bit more experimental and I’d love to get a bit of feedback on what topics you are interested in.

Below are a bunch of ideas for videos.

If you think any of those ideas sound like a video topic you’d be interested in watching, then feel free to vote for it and feel free to vote for as many as you like!

The vote here isn’t meant to create a definitive list of what to create next year but to help me plan ahead and make sure I end up creating things people actually want to see.

Just pick as many or as few video ideas as sound interesting to you!

Already done?

Well, thank you so much for voting, here take this imaginary “I voted" pin as a small thank you!

Thank you so much for your support and I hope all of you have a wonderful Christmas!

Best,
Ceave