Except, I got sidetracked from that when I realized that it’s time to do my end-of-year writeup<\/a> like I always do. The year is winding down. Cyberpunk 2077 comes out in 10 days. There’s not enough time between now and the end-of-year to give Cyberpunk its due, which means I’m done playing games for 2020. Anything from here on belongs to 2021. It’s time to look back over this train-wreck of a year and try to put things in some kind of order.<\/p>\n Except, I’m not really doing that because I got sidetracked playing last-minute 2020 hopefuls Carrion and Teardown<\/a>.<\/p>\n Except, I didn’t get to spend a lot of time with them because I spent last week hanging out with my oldest two kids for the first time in years. But now that they’re gone, it’s time to finish playing Teardown + Carrion so I can do my end-of-year series so I can finish my next programming article so I can reach the next stage of my programming project so I can shelve it and work on my next column.<\/p>\n Except…<\/p>\n Over the weekend I was watching old Strong Bad emails<\/a>, which got me thinking about the Strong Bad TellTale games from 2008, which made me realize there are two entire episodes of the game I never got around to playing. I’ve owned the series for a dozen years and didn’t realize I’d somehow missed out on 40% of the available contentTragedy: The games are no longer available for purchase now that TellTale games died.<\/span>!<\/p>\n So in this incredibly busy season with a huge backlog of work hanging over me, I spent the last couple of days playing point-and-click adventure games leftover from the PS3 \/ Wii era of gaming. This means I don’t have any content for you right now. Instead let me offer you this stupid random image that’s partially interesting…<\/p>\n This jumped out at me when I was scrolling YouTube last week. Nothing special. It’s the usual avalanche of thumbnails for stuff I’ve watched a dozen times, sprinkled with the occasional new content. Give it a gander and see if anything seems strange to you.<\/p>\n No? Normal? Nothing amiss?<\/em> Maybe it’s just me then.<\/p>\n Here is what I found interesting: The juxtaposition of the Tom Scott and STYX video. Now, Tom Scott doesn’t really look at all like STYX keyboardist \/ lead vocalist Dennis DeYoung<\/a>Both men are in their 30s in their respective pictures, but the picture of DeYoung was probably taken in 1983. DeYoung is in his 70s today.<\/span>, but something about the angle of the photo makes them look similar. Even the outfits look similar. If I saw the STYX video in isolation I probably wouldn’t think it was Tom Scott, but by placing it beside a Tom Scott video my brain makes the connection and I can’t NOT see Tom Scott.<\/p>\n There are supposedly 500 hours of content uploaded to YouTube every minute. Which makes it all the more baffling that it keeps suggesting I go archive binge established creators. They still have a (well hidden) search feature that will let you see fresh uploads, but I wish there was some middle ground between “Corporate Approved Internet Television” and “The 4Chan Chaos Feed”. Like, it’s really hard to find creators in the 100-10,000 subscriber range. You can either watch the algorithm-approved superstars, or the random uploads of a thousand burner accounts. (Or in rare occasions, both<\/a>.)<\/p>\n Ah well. Once I finish this Strong Bad game I’ll get back to doing… whatever I’m supposed to be doing around here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s Tuesday, which means it’s time for another column. Actually, the next column \/ video is a couple of weeks overdue by now. I got distracted by my programming project and abandoned the next column mid-paragraph. 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