u/battybatt

I'm a very new/small channel (20ish subscribers) but I'm so happy that I'm already getting some engaged commenters. Of course I appreciate likes and subscribers too, but the comments are the most exciting. Knowing that my videos are already resonating with some people makes me really hopeful about building a community in the future.

One regular in particular is always so sweet and encouraging that for a minute I was like, "Mom, did you find my channel?" but it's clearly not someone I know.

It's really making me want to comment more on other's videos too, now that I know how much it can mean.

About 25% of my viewers use closed captions on my videos.

I like to have them on myself, and I want my stuff to be accessible, so I would include them even if it was a very small percentage of viewers. But I was surprised to find it's over 1 in 4.

I'm guessing it's so high partially because I write them myself. The auto-generated ones aren't very good, so if that was the only choice, some people would probably just not use them. But I'm curious if it's like this for others.

Some creators I watch make these huge videos combining every previous video in a series when they're done. It's definitely redundant, but some viewers seem to find them convenient. And even if they get fewer views, it's an easy upload without much extra work.

Personally, I have no preference between watching a four-hour mega movie or a playlist with a bunch of 30-minute videos.

What do you think about them? Would you make them?

tl;dr I'm really awkward when I have to look and speak directly to the camera. How can I improve?

Some things I've tried that help a little:

• writing out a script and following it loosely
• putting a picture of a friendly face right below the camera
• doing a bajillion takes
• making sure I'm well groomed and physically comfortable before I start

I recently started my very first channel. I watch a lot of building games (mostly the sims, and recently paralives). Since I love building, I thought it would be fun to start making and sharing building videos.

I uploaded my first video recently, and while I don't particularly care about becoming a big channel (it's really just for fun), I do care about the quality of my videos. I had a great time making my first one, and I'm already working on the next. Tbh, I liked almost all of the process: filming and talking through the build, editing, adding subtitles, making the thumbnail...

The worst part for sure is when I'm filming an intro and outro. I get so fucking nervous and self-conscious when I have to look at the camera. I'm a bit uncomfortable about eye contact irl. It feels very intense and personal, esp with people I don't know well) and this definitely feels like a continuation of that.

I have a face cam and talk while I'm gaming and it's totally fine. It's just when it's time to look at the camera that I get all weird. I do think the types of videos I'm making gain a lot from an intro and outro, so I want to improve.

This is really vague, sorry. I read it as a child in the 2000s. It was probably at the library or an after-school program. I don't remember how long it was.

I think there were three or four girls all staying at a house (for the summer, maybe). They shared a huge room that was divided into sections for each of them, each with its own decor style. Might have been an attic. As a kid I thought it was so charming and cozy.

I think there were a good amount of illustrations, but it wasn't a picture book. The style was very detailed, possibly watercolor with pen outlines.

It may have been a series. I don't think the main plot was actually about dividing the room or conflict between the girls. There might have been a mystery element.

On my current farm, I have been playing kind of lazily. Avoiding my minmaxing tendencies, focusing more on aesthetics. And I just didn't feel like building a coop on this farm.

I thought I would have to eventually for perfection, but I wanted to see how far I could go without it. It seems like even without relying on the traveling cart (with one exception), most things in the game can be achieved without any coop animals.

• rabbit feet from serpents
• wool from sheep
• I thought I would get the duck feather for the community center from my cat, but Emily actually beat her to it. And I got one for shipping shortly after, as well.

Cooking:

• turns out you can use void eggs for any egg recipe. And you can just buy those from Krobus. Void mayo isn't valid for cooking, though. Nor is dino mayo.
• however, ostriches are not coop animals, so you can raise them in your barn. And their eggs just make normal mayonnaise. You could also get ostrich eggs from volcano chests, but you need at least two - one for mayo (will yield 10) and one for shipping.

Even Gus' omelet quest is doable without a coop. I don't think buying void eggs from Krobus fulfills the "gathering" part of the quest, but you know what does? Killing dinosaurs. It was difficult to get 24 in two weeks, but I used some monster musk, lucky food, and a bunch of stairs, and I got it done. We can't cook with dino eggs ourselves, but Gus can.

The shipping collection is the only area where you're more dependent on RNG. There are four ways to get eggs without a coop that I know of: traveling cart, Shane's stall at the desert festival, getting them from Marnie for the Winter Star, and buying a duck egg from Pierre at the Winter Star. I believe Shane and Marnie only have normal white eggs, so you need at least three things from the cart. A large white egg, and a small and large brown egg.

At this point, I would like to reach perfection with the "build a coop" and "make a scarecrow" quests still in my journal (I apparently didn't harvest a parsnip until I had already made more than enough scarecrows.)