u/WasabiComprehensive2

I edit and share audio dramas/eroticas and I usually tend to post twice maybe three times a week since I only work a part time job IRL and Patreon and commissions help cover my other expenses, but I’m worried if posting even that much might be a problem; quantity over quality, as they say. i Haven‘t had anyone actually complain that my quality is falling off and my earnings are still healthy, though to be fair, I don’t really have many friends who are experts in audio editing to guide me. Am I overthinking this or should I post less to try and space out posts and maybe get new subscribers? Can anyone weigh in here?

Sorry if this isn’t the kind of thing that’s posted in her, but with how often Caddicarus talks about his pre-2020 videos as if they all suck, I was curious to hear from everyone what they think was the point where Caddicarus lost the plot and his videos became too serious and not funny until he decided to revamp himself. Personally speaking, as someone who had been watching him since 2014 (yes I know), I stayed with him up until the beginning of 2019 before unsubscribing after the Kingdom Hearts 3 video because it was just fifty minutes of nothing burger reviewing with like four or five quirky jokes sprinkled throughout. That, coupled with his other videos feeling too straightforward and not that funny made me walk away, and even when I saw stuff like his box art video or the Pepsiman video, I still wasn’t convinced to return, cuz they were both just boring to me. I haven’t fully gotten back on the Caddy train yet though that’s mostly because my taste on Youtubers has changed a lot since I was 19 years old. Credit where it’s due though, his Jesus games video made me crack the fuck up last night, so maybe I’ll give him another chance soon

(cw: self harm mention)

Long story short, in August of last year I got in trouble at my local theater for asking a family if I was in the right place for an R-rated movie because they had their kids with them and the family got mad at me. I went to my seat far away from them and muttered how I was stupid and wished I was dead before a couple employees told me to leave and another said I was banned for allegedly harassing the family and saying I wanted to kill them on top of calling me out over a prank from 2024 where I wore a Ghostface costume to a kids movie. I tried calling the theater earlier during a therapy appointment to apologize and see if maybe things were okay only to be told no and that I am never allowed back and that there is nothing I can do to change things.

Ever since I left (like an hour ago from when I first posted this) I’ve been thinking about wanting to hurt myself because of how much of a fucking idiot I was for getting into this situation and how all of this could have been avoided. I feel like I’m a stupid annoying fucking child. Idk how unique this is to me but whenever I make mistakes, I always dwell over all the times I hurt or upset people or made them uncomfortable, whether it was friends or strangers, and I feel like shooting myself. I’m turning 26 in two months and I feel like a loser compared to everyone else I know. Other people my age don’t get kicked out of places and get banned forever. They have their own house, a full time job, a married partner, etc. I moved out of my parents house and i can pay my bills every month, but that doesn’t matter. I have to work part time while doing lots of freelance work online because I can’t find a full time job that I’m mentally fit for in my town. i don’t think I’m mentally fit for society. I wish I were dead.

This is going to sound weirdly specific, but I remember when Caddy was complaining about his older style/videos and how overly critical he was back then, at one point he brought up the Nostalgia Critic Cat in the Hat review of all things. Specifically, the part near the end where the Critic was standing up and giving a soapbox about how Dr. Seuss is great and important and how the Cat in the Hat movie was shit before Caddy was like, "Dude, you're reading too deep into it" or something. I only bring that up because I remember him also talking about the Linkara/OneyPlays drama right before that. Does anyone know which episode of the let's play/live streams that's from?

Recently, I sent out my Xbox to someone to fix the motherboard since it was starting to crap the bed only to find out it won't output to HDMI for some reason. I think it has to do with the modchip inside the console making it so it won't boot past a certain resolution, but I can't say for certain and the guy repairing my console hasn't had any luck finding a fix. Can anyone here with more technical know how help?

Without going too deep into how much I’m making or my personal life, I’ve been a freelance audio editor/writer for the last year or so and have been relying on Patreon to help with income since I’m autistic/disabled and can’t find full time work where I live, so I do commissions and Patreon while working a part-time job. Throughout all of May, I’ve had good earnings coming in and I’ve made about as much as I did in April and March (enough to pay my bills and stay fed), but I always have this nagging fear that I’m going to lose all my money and crash and burn especially when I have a high tier member cancel like earlier today or have a handful of people all leave or something else altogether. I lost $40 in earnings in the last eight hours despite having other people still pledge/upgrade here and there, and I’ve had to endure a few other significant losses from high tier members throughout the month, which has made me paranoid considering how expensive and terrible the outside world is right now. I know ‘reasonably’ I‘ll be okay and I’ve been saving money so I won‘t go broke anytime soon, but it still hurts to bust my ass over something I’m working at just to see my earnings drop despite arguably having healthy numbers. For anyone else who feels this way, what’s an easy way to reassure Yourself that things are fine and that these small setbacks don’t mean anything?

Every single day I keep reading about how our piece of shit president is going to lead us to a recession and how everything is too expensive and it's hard to want to get out of bed and do something when you know all your efforts don't mean jack shit. I'm disabled and rely on my part time job as well as Patreon/commissions to keep me going and having to lose top tier patrons while also being unable to apply for full time work without wanting to kill myself is awful. It just feels like there's nothing good to look forward to besides dying and I wish it would just stop. I wish there was something to actually look forward to for once in my life.

I've been meaning to pick up more Scorsese movies in 4K when I found out that Taxi Driver's 4K release is out of print and goes for over $130, which I am not paying for whatsoever. I did some research on alternatives and found out there's a box set of other Columbia movies including Social Network that usually hovers for around $200 or less and was thinking of picking that up instead, considering it would at least be better value of money. Does anyone else have the collection by chance and can vouch for its quality? I know Social Network has a standalone release that isn't pricey, but I'd rather secure Taxi Driver while I can without spending way too much on it

Lately I’ve been 4K collecting and I wanted to get more Spielberg movies because he’s one of my favorite directors (very original opinion, I know lmao). Currently, I have the 2017 steelbook for Close Encounters and Minority Report (my actual personal favorite movie of his) both on 4K, with Saving Private Ryan arriving through the mail in the coming days, but I’m curious which movies of his on 4K are ones I should get in terms of how the movie is handled/preserved. Obviously, I wanna get the Indiana Jones movies, Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List, Catch Me If You Can, etc., I’m more so asking to know if any of the transfers for certain movies are worse than others. I’ve heard JP has had some rough releases here and there

Recently my copy of Pro Skater 2 shat the bed and won't load up on my Dreamcast and rather than drive forty minutes out of town to go to a disc cleaner because all the ones that used to be in my area are gone (thanks Covid), I decided to buy some blank CD-Rs at Walmart for $20 and try burning some games myself. The problem however is that every time I've tried burning a disc, my Dreamcast doesn't seem to recognize them. The discs most of them just dead ass don't spin or they spin for a while yet the Dreamcast craps out. For reference, I have a V1 Dreamcast model and I own other burned games I bought off Etsy over the last several years that have worked, so idk what's going on. I'm using Imgburn as well as getting all the necessary files (the cdi and all that) on the Internet Archive for the games while trying to burn them at different speeds, yet nothing works. Is there anything I'm doing wrong?

I recently saw Adaptation twice over the last couple of days and absolutely loved it. Brilliantly written front to back with a cheeky meta-attitude that feels both therapeutic and strange considering Charlie Kaufman's imposter syndrome at the time after Being John Malkovich took off. Yet when I found out Chris Cooper won the Oscar for best supporting actor that year, I couldn't help but be confused. He gave a really good performance, but I would argue Nic Cage and Meryl Streep were much better overall compared to his character who's more subtly suited to be a satellite character for Streep's character. The best part with Cooper's character would have to be the car accident flashback as well as the twist regarding the affair, though nothing about it screamed best of the year. Granted, I haven't seen Catch Me If You Can or Chicago in a while (though from what I remember, I would gladly take Cooper's performance over John C. Reilly's) and I haven't even watched The Hours or Road to Perdition yet, so maybe Ed Harris and Paul Newman's performances are better? Idk, I'd like to hear some other thoughts about this. Adaptation has genuinely become a new favorite personal movie of mine as someone who also writes a lot for a living and also weaves back and forth between being anxious and neurotic while also bombastic and carefree, so another perspective in on this would be interesting.

I'm sorry for having this come off as whiny and pedantic, but I'm a disabled person who mostly relies on Patreon and commissions for income since it covers 2/3rds of my income. For those who don't know, Patreon is basically a subscription based service where people can give someone a certain amount of money every month for a service like art, podcasts, etc., and while it's gone well for me, I've also had my occasional setbacks. I won't go into specifics over how much money I'm making, although as of right now, I'm making enough to live comfortably yet I can't help but feel anxious and nervous and start catastrophizing when things get bad. Recently I lost over $40 in earnings since it's the end of the month, which is to be expected since people wanna dip by then, but a part of me keeps worrying that I'll start losing more and more no matter how consistent I am. For reference, I'm able to put two-three new pieces of work in a week and I'm fairly consistent with commission turnaround times for the most part. I'm still able to usually make back my losses, but it's also gotten to the point where some acquaintances/friends I've vented to about this are telling me it's getting too much and I don't want to push them away, never mind make myself more stressed.

I understand for some autistic people, repetition and dwelling/ruminating on the same subject is a problem, but I want to hear from other people here how they cope, whether they're in my position or not. Does anyone have anything they might wanna share?

My copy of Pro Skater 2 stopped working recently and since there aren't any disc cleaners in town and I'm too cheap to buy a secondhand copy on eBay, I wanted to give burning discs a try. Unfortunately, despite my efforts, I can't get them to work on my console. I've followed instructions online carefully and burned two ISOs onto two blank CD-Rs, but they don't read let alone spin most of the time. And yes, I know my console can read burned discs because I have a model 1 Dreamcast and have been able to play burned discs I've bought on websites like Etsy. Am I doing something wrong or is my console just an asshole?