There’s no way out, my life is filled with disappointment.

As someone who spent a lot of hours working on a romhack that I realistically wont ever be able to finish, this video definitely hit home. Especially the stuff about these skills not being transferable. I’d always heard about devs getting their start by modding, but that mostly only applies to modding pc games. Old console stuff is way too specific. You’ll learn a very small number of memory saving tricks, but whatever tool suite you use wont transfer to anything modern developers use at all. That’s my experience from modding Super Mario Bros 1 and Smash Bros 64 anyway, but it seems to be the same for most old console games. I don’t normally go for kaizo stuff, but I’ll check out your romhack for sure.

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wow what a great video about how to approach any creative project

totally feel you on this, for my most recent chaos mod i made for dr. robotnik's ring racers, i had to set down a good definitive timeframe of stuff i wanted to get done, lest the project spend eternity in feature creep hell and i was able to get everything done mostly in time, even despite the fact i had to trash my entire codebase and start from scratch, due to me using a codebase that was basically 4 years old by now lol and indeed, there were a lot of features that i ended up not doing for the sake of *actually* releasing my mod but in the end, i made something that's good enough, and was a marked improvement over my last mods, so it was good enough for me. there's always time to update it in the feature to do what i want, though, i think i'll save that for a different ambitious project i have in mind for backporting my work to SRB2... which i have grand plans for, that i know will be trimmed back by the time it comes to release, but that's what ideas are for lol

"At the cost of sounding dumb, I love learning new things." That's the dumbest thing I've heard all day... Don't sell yourself short like that. The smartest people in the world are the ones who are brave enough to dive into a new field of study and expose their knowledge gaps, so they can fill those gaps and come out better on the other side. In other words, the smartest people understand just how much they *don't* know, and never stop chasing a more thorough understanding of the world. Confidence sells, because it feeds people the illusion that you know everything there is to know about a topic. But no one is that smart, and at the end of the day, you'll just be exposing your incompetence to those who know more than you. But if you keep that growth mindset and keep learning new things, you will continually get better at learning new things, and people will see how smart you are because of how quickly and effectively you can learn them. Learning new things doesn't make you sound dumb. At worst it makes you sound like a genius in the making. Great video, man. Keep it up.

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investing in this video

Came for the philosophy, stayed for the gameplay (but mostly philosophy lol). As a filthy casual once-in-a-blue-moon Mario enjoyer, this shit would be wayyyy too goddamn frustrating for me, so I'ma just politely compliment the clear hard work that went into it and also not so quietly think to myself about how people who like to play levels that difficult are masochists and how people will read my comment and be like "pshhh this ain't anywhere near as hard as a level can be" But yeah, great vid.

Whoa, Super Mario and a philosophical take in one video? I must be dreaming! It reminds me of my own situation, although it's not like your's. But ever since my mother asked me to help her at work for a week because she couldn't do it on her own anymore, something made click in my head and I started to be in the mood to get the things done that I wouldn't do for 2 WHOLE YEARS, like my driver's license for example. I dunno what caused me to be this lazy and attached to boredom, if it's a coming and going depression or an aftermath after this really intense relationship + break-up last year, but the fact that it almost ruined my future because I was almost thrown out of vocational school with my bad grades, really became more clearer in the last few weeks. Whatever it is, I gotta keep pushing so I can finally concentrate on becoming more mature and move on with everything. I'm 20 and I still struggle so hard with starting my own life, it's embarrasing af and I can't stop thinking of myself as some incel who wouldn't stop complaining about everyone and everything, which maybe helped a little too lately. The biggest and baddest obstacle is still in my way, but I wanna beat it no matter what! Thanks for this video, I hope my rant/vent wasn't too much. It was a Mario video after all, heh.

Very good video, I was sent here by Tumbleweb.

A lesson I'm currently learning while working on a Godot game from scratch. I kept trying to broaden the scope in what you described as "arbitrarily" ambitious ways, but finally realized sacraficing the ideal scope in my mind in favor of a scope I could practically execute is the right move. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

I've worked on game dev for probably a decade by now, and what i can tell you is that being able to stop and finish the project is by far the most important thing. I've more or less wasted 3 years working on a VR sneak game for example, went through many complete remakes, I have a hidden steam page for it, but I never ended up publishing it because i never felt like I was done. No amount of skill or perseverance can overcome the inability to finish something. All that to say is, great job! I believe you'll do great with game dev!

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I write a lot of music, and what you said really resonates with me. The hardest part of the process is negotiating that space between your initial inspirations for the project and what you can actually achieve. I’m playing through base game Mario world right now, so I’ve got some training to do, but Super Thesis World is on my list of rom hacks to check out!

Man tried to make a rom hack and made a philosophical statement instead

"art isn't finished, it's abandoned". Wow, the more I think about it the more fascinating this becomes because that's exactly the way I make art too. Absolutely unique video by the way, I needed that a lot.

You're missing a few sets

Love the video! I was curious what lens is that that you are using

Yeah, but try doing that with your toes!

These look amazing.

This was soooooooooo helpful. I had no questions. I watch this video the whole way through my assembly. I was very doable.

This is genuinely a great video. you had me laughing in the first bit. 😂

I’ve just bought a monorail camera. It’s scaring me just looking at it - but this is super helpful. As ever don’t rush, something is bound to go wrong if you do. Great channel.

Wow. The graphics are so great. I will start playing it tomorrow.

another couple of mistakes, one: to not remember to take your watch off before loading film, as the luminous or led dials can fog film; two, not using a lens hood, as flare can wreck a piece of film, or using your hand, and not a cable release to set off the shutter, causing vibrations, or body parts in the shot.

Very good I will use your method from now on .

Thanks super easy. I don't have a spanner wrench but I can find one. There is a thing called a lens wrench which is usually a flat square piece of metal with "prongs" for the various Copal sized rings. I suppose it works similarly. They are quite cheap on eBay.

Don't forget to take off your smartwatch before going into the darkroom, the light will surely fog the film!

I built my Standard camera in 2020 and would like to know what's the difference between my version and V2 ?

Sable needs more videos on it

Sweet!!!! Also: I spy a Freitag Hazzard bag! :-) I'm a fellow Freitag obsessive.

thanks for the update, drew.🫶🏾 id pay TOP dollar for those gradient bellows, whoa.

Most of the video was very good - except for the advice on lens boards. Linhof is not common to all cameras. I own a Toyo and a Sinar - both 4x5 and they both use different lens boards. There are boards that adapt to linhof boards for both of those cameras, but they are not the standard. Otherwise a well put together presentation.

No joke - I was literally just talking about your camera. Have you tried asking Matt Marrash to check it out? He dropped an Intrepid review recently that was super informative. It would be nice to see long term user review.