New Video (work in progress)! The Problem With Hideo Kojima (Patreon)

Hey everyone!

Just to let you know that there's a new (work in progress) video available! This is currently just the trailer footage for the documentary as the video component, while I finish off the actual video. Patreon month-end deadlines and all of that—I deeply appreciate your patience, and the finished product will be with you real soon. Posting this just takes a lot of pressure off of me for the month ahead. As always, you'll be charged for this post, but not the separate post I make for the final product. You'll only be charged once for this video. Should go without saying but doesn't hurt to clarify. 

This one talks about the recently released Disney+ documentary on Hideo Kojima, called Connecting Worlds—how, as a longtime fan of his work, this documentary (as well as his book) solidified some thoughts I have had about his creative trajectory, his cosying up to the film industry, and the concerns that potentially raises for his games going forward.

As it stands, I'm unsure whether I'm going to make this public or not when it's done, mainly because I can already envision the comments section on a video like this (I mean even saying "I find a lot of Death Stranding fascinating, there's a lot I like, but I have problems with it" back when it came out resulted in maybe the angriest, weirdest, boundary-crossing response I've ever had to a video before). Sucks that discussion of games online/comment sections have become so rotten in certain areas that I can make a video I'm proud of and seriously wonder if I can be arsed dealing with posting it publicly, but it is what it is. Might say "screw it" and post it then just turn my phone off for a while, haha.

That said, I liked working on this one a lot. It's actually been fun after being in a bit of a rut to put together some quickfire stuff like this and the Helldivers vid in between the bigger projects I've been working on. Really gets the creative mind going. I said this in the last post, but I cannot thank you enough for your patience, understanding and continued support in allowing me to explore stuff like this. You all rule.

Thanks again and see you soon with the full vid,

Hamish
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