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yahoo! finally! it's a ridiculous video complete with a retelling of the last question by isaac asimov, a reference to the 2001 playstation 2 game ssx tricky, and the phrase 'aloha, zuckerberg'. i hope it...works. as always i fear sounding silly. felt very out of my league while writing...read and researched a lot...but by the end i thought it made enough sense to be proud of. cj kindly read it and said 'your vids are like you drawing a circle tighter and tighter on a little moment, kind of spiral staircasing to your heart' and naturally that made me feel much better about the whole thing, and full of purpose. gonna spend this weekend and early next week filming...so maybe finished by next weekend? will keep you in the loop

once it's uploaded i need to freaking PACK for the MOVE! and paint the entire flat white again...christ alive...the dark green was such a good idea until this defining moment, where i discover it was actually the worst possible idea...

i'm nearly approved for a flat in edinburgh that i love (ceilings i can't touch, even if i jump really high! bay windows!) but the tenancy application has been a long and, uh, sort of invasive process (the agency wanted three months of bank statements..three years of tax returns..two character references..a credit report that i had to source(?)...+ need to pay double the deposit because of bug) and i've spent the last few days dizzy with worry that there is something wrong with my Documents lol. certainty would be nice. if you'd like to cross your fingers for me i wouldn't say no.

hope you're all well + talk soon

sav x

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madeline mcfarlane

can’t wait for what i’m sure is another banging vid and my fingers will be crossed very tightly for u xx it will all go well i’m sure!

André Filipe

Crossing my fingers indeed, moving is hardly ever fun 😬 But the payoff is almost always worth it 😁 Good luck, exited for the new video ^-^

Bobo Boom

Fingers crossed the renting bureaucracy doesn't cause you issues. I always get the feeling most of the paperwork they want is never actually read...

savannah brown

oh totally. i'm filling out these apps with really heartfelt appeals like 'i am a gentle person who takes a lot of pride in her home' and i know these agents are just like. ok there is no box i can tick for that. haha

astrid

love waking up to a patreon post! can't wait for the video, hope everything turns out well for your new apartment (pd: fuck landlords and real estate companies)

drew s

following Sav's vids for years has finally paid off, been waiting for this SSX Tricky take since day one

zara

ooh the script !! cj's description !!! immense excitement  + bug being treated as a second tenant for deposit is very funny she is a lady after all (hope u found someone w the van for the move that's not a twitter freak crossing fingers!)

Ben H

I wish I could speak like CJ. That comment is a beautiful way to describe something. Looking forward to it being released!

ayybowman

i have fond memories of playing ssx tricky with my dad, im excited!

Toby

I have the desire to avert my eyes from this because like any movie that I'm anticipated for, I like to go in as blindly as possible and not set any uneven expectations, but caving under my creeping curiosity is probably going to happen anyway, and it's cool for anyone who was interested anyway haha. Already won over with a reference to a PS2 title from the golden era of video games. Must also add that I like cjs thoughts & it confirms that your writing is always so creative & precise, contrasted w/ one of the most human personalities on YT. Im almost certain it will turn out to be a personal yearly favourite video. best of luck to u & bug w/ the process of moving :)

Kira

cj’s words are authoritatively good and true also 🤞🤞🤞

Jon Colverson

I dearly love The Last Question, so I'm dearly looking forward to this video! Is CJ CJF by any chance? (If it is who I'm thinking of, I made friends with her on Twitch during the pandemic 😄)

Melanie Jacobsen

fingers crossed sav!!! you just made me afraid of my next move as i have also made the aesthetically pleasing but prospectively daunting choice to paint my walls forest green 🙃

Georgia Coley

so excited for this, as "is the world getting worse" has been pretty much the question i've wrestled most with in the last few years. does CJ refer to the great CJ the X????

Griffin Crawford

Yayy so excited for the new video, good luck with the move!

bailey bayer

these existential feelings are being felt! very much looking forward to this

serrap

I was watching CJ's excellent video on Deadly Art Sins the other day which resonated with me a lot. Cool that you two know each other, and love the quote from him! Am very much looking forward to this video on what is probably one of *the* defining questions of our times. I really like what Cory Doctorow says when asked about optimism in his novels: "I am hopeful. As I always say when I talk about my work, I think there’s an important distinction between hope and optimism. Optimism is this fatalistic belief that things are just going to get better. It’s just pessimism inverted. And both pessimism and optimism presume that we have no role in shaping our destiny. In contrast, hope is grounded in the idea that by actively changing our material circumstances and moving toward a better world, we can gain a new perspective. And then we might be able to see paths that were previously invisible, occluded by the terrain around us — paths that can lead us even further up the gradient. And through that, step-by-step, we can ascend the gradient toward a world that we want to live in." --- Doctorow interview: https://jacobin.com/2023/10/cory-doctorow-seize-the-means-of-computation-big-tech-democratization-infrastructure CJ Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMpJFbwR8OM