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What's the "Cost" of a Desert Bus?

Just a thing I thought about on my way home from Victoria.

[PREVIEW] Call of Duty: Ghosts – Power, Paranoia, and Orbital Tungsten Rods

PAX Panel reminders:

Video premiere is Friday at 6:30pm PT in Firebird (Summit level 5)

Movie Game panel w/ Mikey is Sunday at 5:00pm PT in Blue Dragon (Summit level 5)

Well, everyone, this was a wild month, we're sort of a week behind schedule, but...

Superman and other updates

Big news

PAX West 2025, we have another two panels approved, along with tentative dates and times.

1) Folding Ideas Live: Exclusive Video Premiere + Q&A | Friday, August 29 at 6:30pm

This will be the premiere of the fully scripted, polished,...

PAX East 2025 Panels and Reflections

So, I gave two talks at PAX East in Boston back at the start of May and I want to gather some of my thoughts about them, how they went, and then just kinda travel log the rest of my PAX experience at the end.

But first the links. Both of them are available on the official PAX YouTube chan...

Funday Football: Patreon Video Player Version

This is the exact same as the other post, but in Patreon's video player which some people might find more convenient.

Big Game Bonus Video: Funday Football

Nathan has been getting really into gridiron lately since Aussie Rules is in a slump or something, so we pulled out an oddity that was floating on the very periphery of The Future is a Dead Mall.

Edit: a Patreon-player version is processing and should auto-publish once it's ready. The dire...

Catawampus merch early access

Hey all! Mikey and Teara at Filmjoy have everything set up on their end, and I've finally done the stuff I needed to do on my end, but we're ready to launch!

We have the I Don't Know Dan Olson t-shirts in many sizes (while supplies last) and the Serious Bear Country and Merged Faces stick...

Mantracks Work Draft

Hello everyone! Sorry I've been a bit absent, I just couldn't seem to find a smaller video inside my brain that I could actually finish. We've been crunch crunch crunching away at this and it's finally in a watchable state, obviously with lots and lots of production notes and missing things.
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Why It's Rude to Suck at Warcraft LIVE! PAX West 2024

PAX posted this video weeks ago, but I wanted to post them here in the order that I delivered them, which is a weird hang up but it's my page.

Anyway, here's my first solo panel that wasn't just a Q&A (though both Qs and As happen towards the end).

Thanks again everyone who came ...

XOXO Festival 2024: Envy

Dan's presentation at XOXO Festival 2024


This was an amazing and nerve-wracking experience, but I am so thankful to the Andys for inviting me, I got to see a lot of people I haven't seen in years an...

Dan and Lady Emily talk about Megalopolis for two hours

Wow Platinum, indeed

A YouTube version if you prefer b/c Patreon's audio player breaks or whatever, or because you want to stealth drop it in the group chat, IDK: https://youtu.be/sYitakMP70E

ICR Discovery Center Vlog

Okay, so

I'm (not-so anymore) freshly back from a trip down to Glen Rose, Tx to film a big chunk of the upcoming video. It was an exhausting week, the heat absolutely took a lot out of us, but we were very lucky with our timing and (heat aside) the weather was great and we were able to get...

Merch @ PAX!

We are super excited to let you know that after a mere 14 years on YouTube Folding Ideas finally has actual merch created with intent and we're bringing it to PAX West 2024.

Featuring art from the immensely talented 2024-08-10 18:17:16 +0000 UTC View Post

Extremely Early Preview + News

Hey everyone, here's an extremely, extremely, extremely early preview of the next video. This is actually just a scratch read, I normally do these audio-only but opted to do it on camera this time and walk through the whole process.

These scratch reads have a couple key functions. First th...

The Middles of Calgary map

So I tossed this together because comments pointed out that I failed to include a collected map in the video

The Middle of Calgary

The latest (greatest? last?) geography video, after doing the highest and lowest elevations someone asked me to locate the middle.

New video patron preview draft

Hey everybody, how ya doin'?

So, this has been in the works since December, and it's finally getting very very very close to done. There's still some work to do, particularly on the audio, there's one segment that might get re-shot, and and obviously there's the possibility of mistakes of ...

Highest and Lowest Elevations in Calgary, Alberta: Green Edition

Splividend

What a wild week, I haven't even been able to compile a fraction of the good stuff purely because I'm also trying to wrap up this actual long form video that I'm working on.

In short it appeared as though Keith Gill's Twitter account came out of hibernation last week only to spend a week pu...

Civil War Vlog

I finally saw Civil War and had some thoughts

The Lowest Elevation in Calgary, Alberta - Revision 03: Every Video Is a Video About Itself

The Highest Point in Calgary, Alberta

I can say that it didn't make me verklempt.

What is the worst AVGN episode?

I have my opinions, what are yours?

Harlan Ellison v. Mike Krahulik, 2005

A pointless retrospective on an internet slap fight that happened 20 years ago.

If it had happened today, barring the fact that Harlan is deceased, do you think it would have been made better or worse by ubiquitous smartphones and effortless video hosting?

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What're YOU thinking about?

See, that's funny because "What're you thinking about?" was the default prompt Patreon put in the text box and I'm turning it around on Patreon by asking them and/or you the question that was originally directed at me.

Patreon Macro 01

Next thing's coming along, here's a little Friday fooling around because I spent most of the afternoon mudding drywall and was too brain tired to write after I got home but still felt compelled to make something.

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I'm probably not going to smash the go public button on this one, but I needed to get this out of my system. I might update it further, might take it down, who knows, let's find out.

Reminiscing from the floor about Gary V's beautiful mind

It's truly spectacular

Gear Autobiography

So I've spent an awful lot of time lately thinking about my career, where it's been, where it's going, all that. This is in no small part connected to the time I've spent thinking about James Somerton's equipment combined with a general air of retrospect that seems to be sweeping through YouTuber...

About That Idris Elba Gold Documentary

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