South Park - PC Principal's Office

In Fall 2017, McFarlane Toys released the South Park Construction Sets. Here's PC Principal's Office.

12877 - South Park Construction Sets - PC Principal & Principal's Office

Music:
Hootie & the Blowfish - Hold My Hand (Midi Version)

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Unused Footage from Otakon (2009-2017)

I've been recording videos on/off at Otakon since 2009. These are the clips that were cut from videos I posted online.

00:05 - 2009
01:10 - 2011
02:54 - 2012
13:13 - 2013
15:01 - 2014
15:58 - 2017

Music:
Ectisity - Distorted Sakura

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South Park - Cartman's Basement from The Fractured But Whole

In Fall 2017, McFarlane Toys released the South Park Construction Sets. 4 of these sets were most likely tie-ins to "The Fractured But Whole" game and centers around the kids playing superhero in Cartman's basement.

12861 - South Park Construction Sets - Human Kite & Super Computer
12862 - South Park Construction Sets - Toolshed & Top Bad Guys Board
12863 - South Park Construction Sets - Professor Chaos & Holding Cell
12869 - South Park Construction Sets - Cartman, Kenny & Token & Cartman's Basement (GameStop Exclusive)

Music from South Park: The Fractured But Whole Game:
We Need A Hero (Create Your Character Theme)
The New Kid's/Cartman's House Theme
Main Menu Theme
The Coon League Meeting Theme

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Birthday Weekend

Eight years ago on my birthday weekend, I was snowed in with my mom. We shoveled out of the driveway on my birthday. My dad was on call at work to help neighborhoods affected by the snow. Sibling One was at their apartment and Sibling Two in college in the dorm. We celebrated my birthday on a Friday that week after the snow storm.

It was raining the whole weekend. Watched Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle with mom and dad. It held the number one spot at the box office four weeks in a row. We joked it was a sign that we should watch the movie after avoiding it and watching other bad movies instead.

Two weeks prior, Sibling Two treated the family to Iron Age, a Korean BBQ buffet grill. To keep it different, we celebrated my birthday at Seasons 52 with their rotating seasonal and calorie friendly menu. Went home to blow out the candles on my birthday cake and opened my gifts.

It's been a tradition with my family to send an Amazon wishlist of gift suggestions prior to our birthdays or Christmas. My dad is more carefree and is content with Best Buy gift cards. At lowest priority, I put down the LEGO® NASA Apollo Saturn V set. Parents bought it :)

At 1969 pieces, this will the biggest set I've ever built when I get to it.

Overall, it's been a chill birthday weekend. Just as I like it.

I'm done.

My YouTube

I’ve had my YouTube channel since March 2006. I posted videos from time to time. After a few years, I was eligible to post videos longer than 15 minutes. Then I verified my account in the background and the channel was eligible for monetization and I became a YouTube Partner.

The cool thing about these are that it allowed you to upload videos longer than 15 minutes. By verifying, it allowed you to upload custom thumbnails. By enabling monetization and becoming a YouTube Partner, I could schedule when my videos would be published.

I just uploaded random videos of vacations, karaoke, and building LEGO sets for fun. When I reached 100 subscribers, I was able to add a custom URL (http://www.Youtube.com/StupidSystemus).

There is no set theme for my channel, but I do like creating time lapse vids of me building LEGO sets. I’ve incorporated gaming videos when I learned how to do that for console. I still post random videos from time to time.

Last year, YouTube made a requirement for channels to have 10,000 lifetime views to be eligible for YouTube Partner Program. On January 16, 2018, with the recent problems plaguing YouTube (Adpocalypse 1.0, 2.0, Logan Paul), in response, YouTube sent emails to small time content creators informing them that unless they have 4,000 hours of watch time within the past 12 months and 1,000 subscribers, they will lose all monetization tools and features within the YouTube Partner Program. They have until February 20, 2018 to surpass that threshold.

With my generous 250+ subscribers, my channel makes about $5-7/month. It’s peanuts compared to how much these other channels make, but it puts a smile to my face and keeps me making videos when I can. I don’t speak for all creators, but that small amount is probably what keeps them going and making videos as well. That small amount is enough to justify pouring your time effort to grow your channel.

YouTube’s response to the adpocalypse and their golden boy uploading a video of a dead body on Aokigahara is to punish tons of small time creators. They're just telling us they care about him and not about the rest of us cause he brings in a looooooooot of money. Can you imagine if websites that relied on page clicks get the same treatment? This just reinforces clickbait content and creating controversy to increase watch time from creators.

This whole thing sucks. It’s demoralizing.

At the same time, I never set out to make money on YouTube. I only enabled monetization because of the features that come with them. I hope they don’t go away. I love making videos.

I’m done.