Delayed Input 301 Post-Show Assessment

This was a wild episode. Not too weird honestly, but definitely wild. I had a feeling this week that some game news would fall on my lap, but my backup plan was to do something on Deltarune Chapter 2. Really though, Deltarune/Undertale is one of those things that feels weird to talk about if you're not an expert. It's like if I made a whole video about what outer space is made up of. I'm going to get a lot wrong and you'd rather just hear from a professor.

Fortunately Nintendo announced a Direct on Wednesday morning and my week was pretty much set. I definitely considered shooting some stuff ahead of time, maybe this thing where I make predictions that are immediately proven wrong? Ultimately I figured it would be best to just watch their stuff and form an episode around that.

I felt confident in the turn-around after just doing the PlayStation Hot Takeaways video two weeks ago, I guess the interesting difference is that one was ~8 hours from the end of the event to the video's post, where this took ~11 hours. Delayed Input just takes a little extra loving. And that was a thing I thought about a lot as a twiddled my fingers on Thursday waiting for the Nintendo Direct to start--"What can I compromise on to get the episode done faster this week?" You know, do I cut out the graphics or broll or make it half-length video. The answer remains a shrug, "I guess I don't want to cut anything," and a late edit into the wee hours of the morning. 

There were a couple of comments suggesting knocking an episode back to Friday for my own health sometimes, and I hear you and understand it wouldn't be a big deal. I have to say I'm just kind of used to my own work habits at this point, and though it might sound insane I'll take working mad for 11 straight hours over splitting that across two days. Realistically I would have woken up on Friday, hated all my jokes, grumbled through lunch, and gotten the video up at 6pm anyway.

QUESTIONS FROM YOU!

What snack did you eat?
Dumb behind the scenes: that bonus bit is all one take because I didn't want to set up a second envelope. When I rehearsed that whole thing, "snack time" was a goofy punchline, like "oh boy! Snacks! I'm happy suddenly!" For some reason when I was actually recording, I did that sinister/perverse "snack time" delivery, which actually cracked me up. I was like "dude wtf" to my own self.
Anyway the snack was probably like potato chips and soda.

[The gooby boy stream clip] makes me curious how you see your Twitch versus how you see Delayed Input. I know you mentioned the other week when you shouted out the Tetris stream that you don't like promoting the Twitch on there, could you unpack that a bit?
It might be that coming from Easy Allies, I felt pulls from patreon lovers and twitch lovers to focus more on the thing they love. So keeping those things entirely separate in my life now just means I can deliver what's expected to each audience without letting anyone down. Of course there was a lot of supportive overlap of the two audiences at Easy Allies and here too, but yeah I just feel if I keep twitch and patreon tidily separate it makes things simpler for everyone.

I would love to see your denim in 1440p or 4K!
I think I'm a couple years away from switching to 4K. My new PC should actually be able to handle that (I haven't mentioned this on the Patreon yet but I got a bum GPU which will be replaced in 4-7 weeks) That whole Nintendo presentation was in 1080p though, I don't feel behind the times yet.

I feel like there may well have been an illegible joke on the envelope(s). Was there?
It's definitely the kind of thing I would do, but no I used Nintendo of America's actual address that I just googled, and then a fake version of my own address. Just enough to make it look kind of real on camera. I feel like even if you can't read it, you can tell when someone is just scribbling nonsense on a prop.

I'm always excited to see what kind of segment/game you come up with when discussing these kinds of things, it really helps tie a lot of loose thoughts together into a more cohesive feeling whole. Do you normally come up with the game first, or do you start with a list of topics you want to talk about?
The game/segment is almost always second to writing down my thoughts first. After the Direct I knew I had a lot of fun things I liked, but I also really wanted to talk about the Expansion Pack stuff. So it's like "How do I talk about both?" I was actually really uncertain about I Appreciate That/I Don't Appreciate That, it didn't seem that fun to me. I sat on it for an extra half hour waiting for a better idea to come, but the nice part about having a deadline is that I just had to roll with it.

And with that, season 3 is officially underway. One thing I did for Season 1 and skipped for 2 is making a short list of episode ideas when nothing pops up that week, and I ended up missing that a lot. So I made a new short list that has some fun stuff on it. Like even "ooh, that would be good. I hope we do that one." Just to give you a tease, one of the things I want to try out is doing an episode with one good joke.