200,000 Update and Q&A

200,000 Update and Q&A

Hello everyone you’re seeing this video because the channel has hit 200,000 Subs first of all crazy it’s kind of an amount that you don’t even think of when you’re starting cuz you think of a 100,000 any Step Beyond that is just wild 1/ of the way to a million is crazy

So thank you for that first of all I thought I’d take this opportunity to go over the future of the channel and what I plan to do I also have a Q&A so I have a bunch of cards ready to go with questions that I wrote down from the

Community post that I made so in a time where you see a lot of YouTubers resigning because they’ve done this for their entire life and they’re bored of it or just need less stress happy to tell you that I’m going to be hopefully going full-time by summer right now I

Have a full-time job and I’m also a student I graduate this spring and I plan to once I graduate move over into YouTube fulltime and that’ll mean more streams more videos and probably higher quality content just because I’ll have more time to edit and everything I also

Have a couple of other things that you can call New Year’s resolutions I suppose I want to stream more frequently twice a month at the minimum it’s funny I was actually looking at the uh partner requirements and you have to stream on 12 different days and I was like okay I

Got five streams done this month I am on the road I’m set no I have the viewer requirements easily but like 12 streams on 12 different days is wild I want to host more collaborations you’ve seen a couple of these already I just did the stardew fair video I did an interview

With catly ente which you can go and watch right now on her stream vods I think she’s going to upload it to her YouTube channel so if you want to check it out out and there is a link to it I’ll add it down in the description I

Have a lot of plans for the future don’t want to go into it don’t want to spoil it but uh I also want to collaborate with people outside of the stardew valley group I have a couple of videos that I want to actually get voice actors in with so that’ll be fun alongside

Streaming again one thing I want to do is bring back the VOD Channel I haven’t uploaded a VOD in 6 months maybe a year I don’t know someone actually mentioned a while ago that there’s no way to watch the end of my imperfection stream because all of the streams were saved

Except for one and so that one’s just gone that made me kind of sad so I’m going to try and start saving all of the vods Just because it’s nice to have and so now I have a ton of questions that yes they are written on there it looks

Blank nope there it goes cuz the exposure changed you can see it so are you playing any games that aren’t stardy right now uh so the way I play games is I usually have one relaxing game combined with one stressful action game that’s like high actions per minute my

Stressfree game right now is actually a rom hack of Pokemon Fire Red called Pokemon Unbound very good rom hack probably I’d say probably the best rom hack that I’ve played of Pokemon next to Emerald Rogue which is another great one and my action-packed game would have to

Be grounded I’ve been getting into that I’m about halfway through I’m at an impass I’m really struggling with trying to take on the next area so slow going there what shows do you like or recommend at the moment you’re not going to like this answer so you know the Big Bang Theory

Right I don’t like the big Theory I think it it’s uh kind of boring nerd culture stuff is kind of like a Time bygone there’s a spin-off called young Sheldon it is a really good show I’m about halfway into season 2 right now and I just three episodes every night

Minimum I can’t stop watching it surprisingly good has a lot of emotional depth it’s not like laugh track nerd woman it’s actually good how did you come up with the name salmon so a lot of people are like wow it’s really similar to the Pokémon name it’s

Because it is it’s a misspelling of it I’ve been on YouTube a long time I made this account in 2009 at the time I would have been 12 I misspelled the Pokémon salamance and this actually dates back to every username I’ve ever had on the internet has always been salamance and

The first site that I ever signed up for was Pokémon Crater which is a now defunct blown up site I think there was like some spiritual successor to it but it’s like not the same and at this point I I really have no reason to change it

If it wasn’t working we wouldn’t be here at the 200,000 sub special when you’re coming up for ideas for videos or shorts how often are ideas scrapped and on that line do you have any criteria for what does and doesn’t make an interesting video idea so it I kind of make every

Idea that I have if I ever don’t make a video it’s because I I got distracted with some other videos and eventually forgot about it I have like probably a dozen completely finished scripts that are just sitting there and it’s like well I could go to them but I have other

Ideas that I’m more excited for that’s basically it and as for the criteria of what does and doesn’t make an interesting video idea so okay there’s a couple of things that this comes down to uh if you know Matt Pat he had a very interesting take on how you make videos

Where you make one for the fans one for the algorithm one for yourself I very much abide by that kind of idea the expanded series would be the ones for the fans 100 Days videos and long Challenge videos would be ones for the algorithm and just kind of all this

Weird stuff that I like to try would be the ones for me like the stardo Valley Fair or the 10 cozy games or whatever that’s kind of how I figure it out what’s your favorite part about starting a new stardo Valley save uh prob probably the moneymaking aspect and my

Favorite part of the whole run is getting the golden walnuts because it’s not time gated it’s not like a oh you plant a crop and you have to come back for it 4 days later you could get probably I don’t know how many you could

Get in a day I’d guess about 80 golden walnuts in a day if you really pushed it and were prepared I always like pushing that as far as I can I enjoy trying to get The Farmhouse opened on the first day I’m into Ginger Island it’s always

Such a fun Rush of very different activities what games are you keeping a watch on or would like to play so as for games that come out in the future there’s one farming game that I’m really keeping my eyes on that’s uh fields of mistria I’m not super into just playing

Every single farming game that comes out because you know stard I i’ say stard Valley has me completely covered in that way fields of mystera though adds a different aesthetic I like the idea of using magic and a lot of people have actually recommended Sun Haven to me

Because of that someday that’s like my kind of third place I really do want to try Sun Haven sometime I don’t know just the way it has like the Game Boy advanced art style that’s one I’m looking forward to I’d say the only other game that I’m like is in the

Future that we has been announced that I am excited for is Monster Hunter Wilds love the Monster Hunter series I got into it during a Generations X I believe it was which was on the switch and I’ve played every game since then and I’ve put about 100 hours into every game so

Very excited to see where it goes next do you want to make content that isn’t stardew related yeah I do um not because I’m tired of stard Valley it’s just because I like to do more different things that’s it longtime viewer since Chrono Trigger Jesus first time caller

What are some things you learned over the years of doing this so long favorite personal projects you think are underrated okay so I think the most important things I’ve learned is how important audio is if you have a beautiful video like 1080p 60 FPS there’s no editing mistakes doesn’t

Matter if the audio sucks if the commentary is too slow there’s a big one that I actually see a lot like I need music I need music in the background of any video I watch if there’s no music I get bored so easily I don’t know why

It’s never like a rule that’s always been like you need music but I think for the vast majority of content sound effects and music are important you can’t just have commentary in a video there in terms of the video editing itself there’s got to be like a hook

Every few every minute or so not when it comes to like just gam play but if you’re doing like a documentary style video there’s got to be something that someone gets reinter interested in every once in a while you can’t just hook them at the beginning and assume they’ll stay

The whole time please tell us more about your cat I’m begging for a picture all right give me a second so my cat’s sleeping so I’ll give get back to you on that I’ll just put a bunch of pictures into the video and post all right uh this is our first full

Question and then we’re going to have a speed round where I just go through a ton of questions with like one or two Word answers what keeps you playing stardew Valley after having played it so much what do you think will have to happen before you lose interest and if

You do what do you think is next I’ll answer the what do I think is next so like regardless you know 10 years in the future are we going to still be playing stardy Valley if it’s still crazy and if it’s still popular sure I don’t really

See myself going away from it forever I would love to cover it every now and again even if I do move on to other things as for what’s next maybe the wider cozy cozy game I know a lot of people like don’t like the word cozy

Games but like The Wider cozy game genre I like to get into anything like Nintendo Pokemon especially I’d like to cover a bit more what keeps me playing after playing it so much I still enjoy it easy ass I still enjoy it y’all still enjoy it that seems like reason enough

For me haunted chocolate here I don’t know if that’s going to actually like shake up what this like the stardew valley fandom because like that’s another that’s a big deal I feel just wait and see I guess I don’t know all right now for fast ones uh so I recently

Watched a Charlie is so cool like video from like 10 years ago so we’re going to do that that style favorite stard mod visual fish favorite Bachelor Sebastian will you do a playthrough of haunted chocolate here absolutely on a scale of 1 to 10 how much does chicken Harvey

Disturb you one favorite speedrun perc sea urchin percent favorite crop cranberries top three hats cat ear frog hat and mushroom cap how are you so baller traa how did you find out about stardew Nintendo Capri On’s let’s play what tool do you upgrade first pickaxe are you planning on a 1.6 overview yep

Do you regret being a YouTuber nope how old are you and where did you come from 27 Texas that’ll do it sorry if I didn’t get to your question that was probably what 25 questions that I did somewhere around there listen Okay so I went in

Like most popular to least popular so no matter when you commented it there’s a chance that I would have been it would have been read and some of them I you know I just couldn’t come up with answers like the number one question is will you consider running for the 2024

Presidential election and will you ask for our financial support speaking of so there’s one thing I forgot to talk about I have a patreon many of you probably didn’t know that and that’s fine I made it back when I was a much smaller YouTuber and it was

Very useful uh back during the pandemic getting a good solid stable income after everyone lost their jobs was really nice now I don’t really think I need it so I am going to be shutting the patreon down and here’s one final shout out to all of the people who have supported me over

The years or even people who have started supporting me recently L thank you um it helped so much l i can’t like Express that enough would I be where I am if I didn’t have that extra support I don’t really know I haven’t been updating the patreon with any like

Behind the scenes stuff it feels weird to just straight up ask for money now when I don’t need it so if you really do want to support me still in that way you can move it over to like a twitch sub where at least you’ll get like emotes

And AD free viewing out of it but as for patreon itself it’s a very outdated website and I just don’t need it so uh I’ll be shutting that down thank you all for watching hopefully I can see you in another couple of months for a 300 I

Don’t know if I’m going to do this at every single 100,000 because that I don’t know 500,000 for sure thank you for watching see you in the next one and good Night Oh

Since we’ve just hit 200k subscribers, I’d like to use this moment to go over what the future of the channel will look like, especially since we seem to be in the middle of a YouTuber purge. Excuse the bare-bones setup, I don’t often record in person videos.

Relevant Links:
My Twitch – http://www.twitch.tv/salmence100
Katliente’s interview – https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2028946811 (Starts at 34 minutes)
NCS’s Stardew Let’s Play – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy_j_9BkNt12dPxx1uH5FqSZSYABoBv1s

Sections:
0:00 – What to expect going forward
2:38 – Questions and Answers
10:15 – Rapid Fire Questions
10:58 – Closing the Patreon

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Here’s the lofi Stardew Valley music I use a lot:
https://djcutman.bandcamp.com/album/stardew-chill

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