You too need both 6 hour deep dives into Japanese dating sim games only to end up wait forever for new videos. Personal, deep, mechanical, what a filmmaker.
Action button reviews. Literally saved me from my youtube drought. Probably makes the greatest form of video essays ever. His Boku No Nastuyasumi video is probably the greatest video of all time
I don’t play as many video games as I’d like to these days, but I absolutely adore the deep dive gamer-documentaries that Nick Robinson makes on Youtube. He does these insane vlog meets documentary meets investigative journalism meets internet archivist videos that sometimes explore games I have no knowledge about whatsoever but they’re so freaking high production and entertaining. He has like 3 videos dedicated to the discontinued Domino’s Pizza app that ran in Japan and featured an augmented reality Hatsune Miku function that I adore. We met him when we were in Texas earlier this year and he’s very chill. His videos bring niche lore to the masses and leave with you a sense of contentment and resolve. The future of journalism and documentaries is in Youtubers like Nick Robinson.
Even if you end up having to go somewhere else, there still will be culture to get involved in, people to meet, things to learn, realizations to be made. All of that is still right there for you and it will be open in a way you won't even realize until you've done like a year or two. So it's truly still exciting times. As long as you feel generally good about the place you ultimately choose, your time is coming.
