Will it be the same? Nah.

Will it be fun? Probably.

It’s probably where I get my obsession with preserving physical media as we slowly and steadily march into a digitalized world where if something is deleted it’s lost forever.

For many reasons, which I started to name but nobody needs to hear that shit so I backspaced.

@mietze said in A Constructive Arx Thread:

I’ll be honest, unless it was a panel of all the people involved 20 years later or whatever, the idea of someone trying to profit (vs just blabbing on a message board) off of their hot take on stuff really kind of gives me the creeps. Especially if they bring in people’s real lives into it.

After following the YouTube commentary channels for years, and I can tell you this is exactly how most of those creators make money, by profiting off reacting to what other people have said online and avoiding copyright issues by reacting to it and saying just enough that it’s considered a transformative work. And by that, just really means “If I say enough commenting about it, it’s actually my own work”

Which is why, if I ever were to do something, it’d probably require far too much research in order to give due justice, such as from a holistic approach. I remember trying to use the Wayback Machine a year or so ago, because I was doing some work into 'If I was going to do it, how would I" and realizing that many of the mush related sites had barely any record of existing now. Which means actual historical documentation so much harder to do.

For better or worse, the majority of mush history being lost to time largely prevents any kind of in-depth retrospective, which is what I’d prefer to do. Creating drama content would be if I was just exceedingly petty. I save that for my videos mocking video game console warring(which yes, is still a thing in 2024).

Broadly, I think just about any premise makes for good content if the video is edited properly and the information being delivered is accurate with limited editorializing. Hell, if I can watch a whole-ass 2 hours of video about the evolution of line systems at Disney World when I have never even been, I’m sure just about anything can find an audience.

Charisma and editing skills go a long way.

or just go full Keemstar villain arc and do toss-away videos on mush drama

I look forward to you randomly showing up, shouting about people I don’t care about, when I reach the end of my friends’ Snapchat stories, any day now.

I know that nothing like that is going to go viral or anything like that, and it would be pretty meaningless. But I think of all the times I had to talk someone down from all the sledgehammer of horrible feelings that happened when they discovered a board and found themselves being talked about in a thread from years ago and how discovering people they trusted and confided in were shredding them in ‘venting’ and now that blew up a friendship that had weathered the initial irritation…it was a lot of times, behind the scenes. I wonder if it would be better or worse to discover something like that on youtube vs. a message board. Maybe it’d be less because people who come to a message board care about that topic while the vast majority of youtube would not find it interesting at all. Hell, sustaining outrage even on a place like a reddit sub is hard and there’s certainly people who’ve tried!

I think it’s one thing for the actual creator of a place to talk about lore building, story crafting, ect. but like the personal drama inbetween players? Maybe if the content creator is talking about their own drama they caused or whatever, and how their view on their actions has changed over time, that might be kind of interesting.

I’ve never pulled the trigger for a variety of reasons(largely because the hobby is so niche the YouTube algorithm would laugh me off the site). But it’s definitely something I still think about at length sometimes when I’m writing scripts for voice recording. Usually waffling between some kind of long-form essay content on a history of mushing or just the history this particular game or just go full Keemstar villain arc and do toss-away videos on mush drama.

I still think about it, but mostly I don’t think the work invested would pay off enough to devote to it. So close to being monetized.

… Alright now that we’ve gone over the extensive history of the Nox’alfar,

‘let’s take a few calls’

And it would turn into an audio gossip rag, confirm or deny, where did you hear that, no that’s not true, that is absolutely true, please stop asking about mangos or the bathtub incident, I wasn’t staff then, what Skald does in his alone times is his own damn business, nobleman swerve.

Sounds fun though. You should definitely think about it.

ETA: Definitely being facetious if not outright sarcastic.

@RightMeow said in A Constructive Arx Thread:

@Apos

Welcome to Night— Arx. Welcome to Arx.

I feel you should do this now.

The City Council announces the uncovering of a new Labyrinth at the corner of Crown Way and Visitor Road, beneath the Archive. They would like to remind everyone that books are not allowed in the Labyrinth. People are not allowed in the Labyrinth.

It is possible you will see Hungry Figures in the Labyrinth.

Do not approach them. Do not approach the Labyrinth.

The door is warded and highly dangerous. Try not to look at the Labyrinth, and especially do not look for any period of time at the Hungry Figures. The Labyrinth will not harm you.

Someone found their way into the Labyrinth because Kalakh accidentally wiped the traverse locks again.

They met the Hungry Figures.

They did not survive.

Everything is fine now.

And on an unrelated note:

I was discussing this with @kalakh - I so wish Arx had the budget of big story projects like Vox Machina or Critical Role, because this setting would make for such a kickass Graphic Novel or Animated Series. Argh!

I do have writing credits for song lyrics for my brother-in-law’s band.

Those lyrics may or may not have been inspired by events on Arx.

@Apos

Welcome to Night— Arx. Welcome to Arx.

I feel you should do this now.

The City Council announces the uncovering of a new Labyrinth at the corner of Crown Way and Visitor Road, beneath the Archive. They would like to remind everyone that books are not allowed in the Labyrinth. People are not allowed in the Labyrinth.

It is possible you will see Hungry Figures in the Labyrinth.

Do not approach them. Do not approach the Labyrinth.

The door is warded and highly dangerous. Try not to look at the Labyrinth, and especially do not look for any period of time at the Hungry Figures. The Labyrinth will not harm you.

Welcome to Night— Arx. Welcome to Arx.

I feel you should do this now.

Be a pretty cool podcast too

I was discussing this with @kalakh - I so wish Arx had the budget of big story projects like Vox Machina or Critical Role, because this setting would make for such a kickass Graphic Novel or Animated Series. Argh!