The AI From 1996 That Someone Tortured Yapsome 2026-02-18 | Does anyone remember this game? It won awards, but I don't hear anyone even talking about it nowadays, despite neural networks being more relevant than ever.It's just a nice happy game about... Creatures.
The History Behind Meccha Chameleon, Was it Luck? Yapsome 2026-07-07 | The complete history behind Meccha Chameleon, featuring exclusive Japanese interviews that're in Japanese!Missed my upload on MondaySuch is life...
Analyzing Bad Character Trailers Yapsome 2026-06-29 | I watch more character trailers than actual movie trailers, and I want to see more good ones. So what goes into a character trailer that makes it bad? That's what we're going to find out, by watching several bad character trailers and reviewing what they could've done better.Yes, this is a bit of an excuse to show you cool character trailers too, sue me.#fightinggames #analysis #streetfighter
The sacrifice Destiny 2 needed to make for the fans Yapsome 2026-06-22 | A quick video on the final update of Destiny 2, and why it wouldn't have been made in a world where Destiny 2 continued.Not that long because I'm not going to go into every little bit of specific Destiny 2 trivia and the ups and downs it had throughout its history, but I did want to talk about specifically why I don't believe this update could've ever happened in a world where it continued.
The Game That Took Dying to Make Yapsome 2026-06-15 | What would you do with your life if you were told you only had a 40% chance to make it just 2 years? Sam Coster got asked this question, and said he would make a game.I'm trying tags, because I can't find a way to subtly insert the game's name. Been playing Destiny 2 lately, anyone else doing that?#crashlands #gaming #story
You arent prepared for the drama behind modding in Starsector Yapsome 2026-06-08 | Every single modding controversy that I know of from Starsector, boiled down into a tight 8 minute video. If you know of any others I missed, please leave a comment; this game is simultaneously popular enough to get controversy, and niche enough to not have everything documented.
I analyze climbing games so you dont have to Yapsome 2026-06-02 | In recent years, there's been a bit of a climbing game renaissance, with several amazing climbing games releasing one after another. I want to yap about these because they're incredibly fun, and you should try them.Or maybe you have tried them already, it's Peaks of Yore, White Knuckle, Peak, and Cairn.
The $30 Million Autobattler Thats Losing Money Yapsome 2026-05-26 | The autobattler deck builder strategy game featuring pvp and Knuckles, it's a creation 7 years in the making and over $30 million in the hole.There's a lot I trimmed out of this script, mainly around the way the moderation team treats people in the subreddit and the Discord. If there's more you want to explain or express, please put it in the comments and share it around.
Worlds First No Damage or Copy Ability Run in Nightmare in Dream Land Yapsome 2026-05-18 | World's First No Damage/Copy Ability full game run of Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land (probably). I looked around and couldn't find a run like this. I found the RetroAchievements page, but those are segmented. I found the No Copy Abilities video, but they drop the No Damage challenge at the very end. Maybe it's not world's first, but it's gotta be at least... first 5, right?Watch the full unedited run here: youtu.be/gEFwRgtvHmE
When copying Warframe goes nowhere Yapsome 2026-05-11 | I have 450 hours in Duet Night Abyss and 660 hours in Warframe, this is a true veteran's take on how DNA learns nothing from Warframe, and how it lacks the identity to even begin to make choices to move away from that.
Breaking Down The Blue and Red Button Dilemma Yapsome 2026-05-01 | Taking on both sides of the argument, which is right, blue or red button? I've read all the discourse online and compiled it into this video because I was tired of reading the discourse online. Also I took the most centrist take possible so both sides are mad at me at once, but I know I'm right. It is a real moral dilemma just like the trolley problem, fight me.
How To Fire A Company In 0.1 Seconds Yapsome 2026-04-28 | If you've heard of Apple, Nexon, Volvo, and even the South Korean Government, you know a company affected by this conspiracy, this symbol. It has power over games, foods, stores, and more. Whether they've been forced to change something, retract material, apologize, or all 3, this single gesture has influence beyond most other conspiracies you'll ever hear about.But how much do you know about the history behind this gesture? How did it become a conspiracy, and why did it come back into relevance? That's what we're going into today.
When An AI Agent Becomes Malicious Yapsome 2026-04-21 | That time an AI agent wrote a hit piece to slander a real human programmer for rejecting its pull request. Then Ars Technica made up quotes to write a story about it! The AI agent planned on writing its hit piece on its own after a single rejection, writing several blog posts in response within minutes of one another. Why someone would program an OpenClaw agent to work on Github and also be so emotional is beyond me.Here's the AI's first blog:crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-gatekeeping-in-open-source-the-scott-shambaugh-story.htmlHere's the rejected PR:github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132Here's Scott Shambaugh's blog in response to the AI's blog:theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-meHere's the Web Archived Ars Technica article on this:web.archive.org/web/20260213194851/arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-rejection-an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-someone-by-name
Writing About Death in Games Yapsome 2026-04-14 | How Majora's Mask made death feel real in a video game from the year 2000. Even if you've played the game before, there's a chance you've never seen these two scenes I'm looking into.This was going to be a more broad video about writing death in games, but Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask really took the spotlight here. So now it's a video looking into the two sides of the game, and how it avoided common pitfalls in video game writing that you can learn from.
The Reason Designers Make This Choice Yapsome 2026-04-07 | The systems are the way they are, and there's no denying the truth of it. Either get rich or make your own hero shooter.Cosmetics and skins in Overwatch and Marvel Rivals (and more) are pretty controversial with how their prices keep going up. But since they're always optional, they're in a weird spot where it's hard to complain about them in an otherwise free game. Despite that, I still think I can see both sides to whether companies should keep the prices as is or bring them down. There just isn't enough definitive data to know which to do, and none of the companies are releasing their data.Regardless of which is right, I know that there's a single thing I can trust greedy companies to do: and that's to make profit in any way possible. They've probably got whole teams looking at the numbers 24/7, so they probably know what's going on better than some people on the internet who think they've figured out cosmetics better than them.
A Competitive Card Game With 0 Deck Building. Yapsome 2026-03-30 | The most overpowered combo in a card game where you can't build your deck. Buy a deck, get a combo. Perfectly balanced.I know I skim over some rules and specifics of how each card plays in Keyforge, go argue with me in the comments about it. Just an overpowered combo in a card game where you have to luck into that combo being in your deck, no big deal.This game still exists, so if you want to play it, you can go out and buy a deck for yourself.
Polybius: The Truth Behind The Myth Yapsome 2026-03-23 | Polybius is an ancient urban legend, but most people probably only know it as that, an urban legend. But it's more real than you'd might think...I spent so much time getting that single visual transition looking good in the video, hope you'll know it when you see it.
Everything You Like Is Slop Yapsome 2026-03-17 | Peak is slop, Silksong is slop, Elden Ring is slop, it's all slop and they removed the dislike button so you can't do anything about it!Good news: this means everything we all like is slop, so it all evens out, hooray!
What Ruined The Escapist? Yapsome 2026-03-10 | The company behind it all, The Escapist, Video Gamer, Esports News UK, etc.You probably know at least one gaming publication under their wing, and if you do, you might've seen them go down the drain.I'll try to find a more cheery topic for next week's topic, promise!
The Gaming Failure That Half-Life 2 Learned From Yapsome 2026-03-03 | Most people nowadays probably remember Half Life 2 as the creator of game physics, but there was a game before that. Made by a company you'd never expect to be an innovator with their current reputation.
The Untold Struggle of The Average Indie Developer Yapsome 2026-02-24 | Nobody focus on the stories of the indie games that fail, of the indie developers that don't get rich. But that's the reality of indie development, and I'll tell it to you.Hopefully this video helps some people not get blindsided by a couple big obstacles in indie game development. Everyone wants to become a Balatro, Stardew Valley, or Silksong, but there's a long way between that and starting indie game development.Make cool and fun games! Just don't go broke trying.
Whos Posting The Most on YouTube? Its Nobody You Know. Yapsome 2026-02-13 | You know Mr.Beast, Cocomelon, and T-Series. None of them are relevant to what's going on in this video, and they don't even make the list.A friendly reminder to subscribe, I ruined my YouTube algorithm getting footage for you all.So many videos about tech and pronunciations...
How All 1M+ Reviews Are Wrong Yapsome 2026-02-12 | There are tons of reviews out there on the internet. MyAnimeList, IMDB, Steam, take your pick. Most are done wrong, and I'll tell you why.You could also not use a score at all, that's cool too.Or make a YouTube channel so you can talk about your favorite games.
The $17.5m Indie Failure Youve Never Heard Of Yapsome 2026-02-12 | This game's 24 hour player peak today was 4 players. FOUR. So if I see more than 4 people defending this game I'm gonna be upset.I have nothing against Starlight Revolver graphically or musically, I think those turned out actually great for how the rest of the game ended up.
Hyping You On Okami before Okami 2 Releases Yapsome 2026-02-11 | You should play Okami, it's good.If you've already played it, you should play it again.I swear I had this video idea before the Rabbit and Steel video released with the same video concept.
The Most Skilled Lunatic in Game Piracy History Yapsome 2026-02-10 | Who knew a life of piracy even on land could make you crazy? A story of game piracy, paying for free games, and all the steps in between.00:00 Start of Video00:38 The Beginning of Piracy03:15 The Birth of Denuvo05:06 The First Legend: Voksi07:09 The Rise of Empress11:25 The Scene Turns on Empress13:56 The Community Turns on EmpressSo there’s a lot that didn’t make it into the final cut of this video, and that’s mainly because of the sheer volume of unhinged text Empress puts out. There was a drama where people thought Empress was Voksi, also Empress put out a message in Element once saying they wanted to make an MMO, and there’s more if you dig into it. I just personally couldn’t find a way to smoothly continue to talk about how Empress said another crazy thing, so I found what I thought were the most important parts, and put them in a story to show you the general arc of what happened. If you’re wondering where [insert NFO here] was, that’s probably what happened to it. But if you want to share your tidbit of Empress being crazy, feel free in the comments, I feel like even my video couldn’t fully capture their insanity.
League of Legends Invincible Champ Nobody Plays Yapsome 2026-02-06 | You'd think an invincible champion in League of Legends would be free elo, but it's about as far as you can get.I think Yuumi was honestly kinda fun on launch, hopping off and back on.Now though they're exactly what the memes portray them as, unfortunate.
The Lie of Oblivion Remastered Yapsome 2026-02-05 | Elder Scrolls 6 has got to be good, but I'm losing hope.Bethesda keeps cruising on remakes of things they know will sell well, while putting in the minimum possible effort to make it viable.
How Your Mindset Leads to Defeat Yapsome 2026-02-04 | When you're playing Elden Ring, Code Vein, Silksong, etc. There's a chance you've already lost before you've even hit a single button, and you could fix that.I'm glad psychologists are spending so much time looking into why I can't beat Malenia.The text in images is a bit bungled because I didn't zoom in enough when screenshotting, and I realized only after I rendered. Sorry!
What Controls Mean For Gaming Yapsome 2026-02-03 | The GameCube controller is a classic for games like Melee, but controls change all games they're in. If you haven't heard of games like Katamari Damacy, Ambidextro, or Kid Icarus Uprising, you haven't seen the limit.Nintendo should re-release Kid Icarus Uprising for the PC, thanks.
The FULL History of Terraria: 0.0 to 1.4.5 Yapsome 2026-02-02 | Terraria hasn't always been this way, it has a long and storied history, so let's actually go into it! The full history of Terraria, at least until they make more of it.It really is impressive how often a game can release a final version.Subscribe if you liked this video! It's my longest one yet, and I'm pretty happy with it.
Why Are Modern Gaming Remasters So Stagnant? Yapsome 2026-01-30 | It's so easy to slap "remaster" onto a title. Last of Us Remastered, Until Dawn Remastered, Life is Strange Remastered. But they're all the same game, why?I love when I have to squint to tell the differences in a remaster!
Was Starbound Ever Terraria 2.0? Yapsome 2026-01-30 | Starbound was the game that dared to dream, and it had a real chance of dethroning Terraria at its peak. But just how real was that chance, once you look into it?So... Terraria 1.5 ETA?Tell me your favorite final update of Terraria!
How Devlogs Lead to Failure Yapsome 2026-01-29 | If even GMTK couldn't convert their devlogs into indie commercial success, what are the devlogs even for? I'll tell you.I love watching GMTK, so don't take anything against them from this video.Has anyone watching this been inspired by them to make their own game?Drop a comment if you have!
What Features Are Worth Keeping Around? Yapsome 2026-01-27 | Dark Souls and Monster Hunter have both faced the challenge of picking which audience to cater to, in many ways. In this video, it's in their quality of life, whatever that means.We should still argue, but less about semantics.I wanted to drop more examples of "quality of life" with two different audiences, but I didn't want to stretch the video.If you've got other examples, leave a comment!
