March Update and F.A.O. Announcement!
Hello you phenomenally phenomenal Patreon people!
I hope that all of you are doing exceptionally, that all your Mario Maker levels get a sudden burst of plays and that every single one of you won an Oscar last week!
The Mario Maker cryptography video and the video about how Mario became such a success are out and with this it’s time for another update!
So first: The results of our poll are in and we have a clear winner.
You wonderful people decided that the video you would want to see me do the most, is an analysis of how Nintendo often overshoots in their attempts to make their games accessible for children.
Naturally I immediately made the video about how Mario became so successful instead.
So why is that?
Well, for a very simple reason - that script was already half finished, I decided to quickly tidy up that script so that I actually have finished a project for once!
The video about accessibility is actually already in the works, but that one is going to take a while because I have to replay a bunch of games for it.
The other winners of the poll were the video about Paper Mario Sticker Star (I might do that video before the one about accessibility because Sticker Star might be relevant for it) and the video about the history of Fuzzies - proving to me once again that you wonderful Patreon people have an exquisite taste in video essay topics.
Which already brings us to today's update.
So here’s how this usually works.
Usually I try to come up with a fun little topic that interests all of you wonderful people and then do a quick little write up about it.
Which already brings us to today's problem.
I have absolutely no idea what to waffle about today.
Absolutely nothing.
But.
I have an idea.
What if we were to turn the tides and do something clever.
What if I weren’t working for my precious Patreon people but my Patreon people were to work for me instead.
And thus I came up with a rather genius evil plan!
Instead of me sharing a write up with all of you, we are going to do an FAO instead!
So what is an FAO I hear you ask?
Well, an FAO is a tried and trusted management technique that clever entrepreneurs can fall back on in difficult times like these.
FAO is short for “Fabulous Attempt to Outsource”.
The idea is simple.
Instead of me having to come up with something you actually would like me to talk about, I outsource this responsibility to you.
The best way to think about an FAO is probably like an FAQ but more productive!
Here’s how this is going to work.
Below this little update there is a comment section.
This comment section is going to be your workplace for the next couple of minutes.
In this workspace you are going to come up with exciting and valuable questions that you always wanted to ask me.
Stuff like: What is my opinion on Pokopia, my honest take on the Sound of Music, where I was when the Deathstar was destroyed, how excited I am about the use of generative AI in video games, where the Ocarina of Times video is hiding, whether a dart trap that hits you with 5 darts at once requires five rolls on whether concentration is broken or just one in DnD 5e or what my hottest take on Austrian inner politics is.
Everything is allowed, the weirder and more specific the question the more productive!
While you wonderful folks are sweating blood trying to come up with excellent questions in the comment section, I’m going to pour myself a nice cold glass of milk and binge it while overseeing your work from a distance.
Once you are exhausted and done with the job I’ll sweep in and use your wonderful questions as the basis for a FAO update video, which I will post here as the next update in an attempt to sell you your own work.
Exciting I know!
Despite my laziest efforts I’ll do my best to answer as many questions as possible.
Hooray!
What’s next?
Well, the next video will be a smaller video about Mario Maker in which I want to try out something new and afterwards I plan to do a video about the Bellapark DLC (mainly trying to figure out why this DLC exists in the first place.)
The FAO video will probably go live after that!
Finally - as always a gigantic thank you to all you wonderful people!
Your generous support really keeps the engine running around here and I can’t thank you all enough for it.
You are all awesome and I hope you know it!
Comments (28)
Uh oh, I’m worried I may be late. I just joined this wonderful legion of Fuzzies! I’ll ask regardless. I always like to ask about music, someone already asked about your favorite artist, so I’ll ask for your favorite album! I would also just be interested to hear your artistic endeavors outside of your two lovely YouTube channels.
Heya! You sadly missed the cut off window for questions but I thought I’d just quickly answer you in text here! My favorite album is actually really difficult to answer for me, because there are so many great ones that I really enjoyed over the years. Arcade Fire’s first album “Funeral” is certainly close to the top and so is Sufjan Stevens “Carrie and Lowell” - now that I think about it the Cranberries album “No Need To Argue” is also really close to the top of my favorite list as well. People mainly know that one because it’s the one Zombie is on but it’s bangers the whole way through in my opinion. But if I had to settle for a favorite I’d actually go with The Dresden Dolls … well, “The Dresden Dolls” album! As for other artistic endeavours - I tend to paint quite often actually. Most of the time I just slap colors on miniatures but every once in a while I also paint canvas!
Honestly, anything related to my favourite puffball Kirby. Be it about the games, how the gameplay has changed between generations of games, a deep dive into the lore and if Dedede is really a villain or not, why Sakurai decided to create Kirby Air Riders as his magnum opus instead of another 3d forgotten land game. And, of course, why is Kirby lore-accurate the strongest character in the whole smash roster. Something else I wondered: how often have you been to Asia? Any plans in the near future? And do you plan to turn footsteps into electricity-
Oooh this will be fun! Do you have any favourite films? You briefly mention Austrian films in your new video, and as a film university student, I'm curious: What are some the best Austrian films in your humble onion? You've made me curious so: what is your honest take on The sound of music? Have you ever played No Man's Sky? What is your opinion of pokopia? And most importantly, because it was asked last time: What colour is your toothbrush now?
I watch your videos for their creativity, spirited writing, and clever attitude. I could care less about Mario, but Mario Maker is quite interesting. What is the most cleverest thing you could write a video about that has nothing to do with Mario?
>looks at thumbnail >it's mario >opens video >it's cybersecurity and lockpicking history
Which playable Mario characters do you genuinely think you could beat at checkers?
Hey, I really love your videos, and I've been a fan for a long time, I really love your mix of serious and insightful content with sillier stuff. I recently became a dual-national Austrian citizen, so I wondered if you could answer some questions about the country - What are your thoughts on national service in Austria. Do you like it or think it's archaic? - What's your favorite Austrian food, and especially desert. Do you like the sachertorte or think it's something that only tourists eat? - What's the general consensus on different political parties in Austria? As in, which ones are especially corrupt and incompetent? Are there any other nuances you'd want to share with someone who knows basically nothing apart from their general position on the political spectrum?
allow me to do some extra work by putting in sweat and a couple of tears to provide some context to the results of my bloody work: Summoning salt is another truly evil genius who built his empire off of the backs of other hard-working people by painstakingly documenting the history of various speedrun world records. He has gloriously captured the gloriously bloody battles over Mario64, Punch-Out, and, undoubtedly the greatest video game in the history of the entire universe, The Simpsons: Hit and Run. Recently, he enacted a dastardly scheme: to resell his old work back to his audience in a physical form, specifically VHS tapes. I am incredibly enamoured with his villainous idea, as it allows people to enjoy his laziness without relying on the volatile platform called YouTube, which tries to take over peoples lives with endless treadmills of content creation. So the result of my blood work is the following question: Have you considered some other form of long-term preservation for your own videos that circumvents the explosive Youtube ecosystem, such as selling dvd volumes of your mario maker videos or, avoiding the headaches of manufacturing, uploading your magnificent videos to some other site which could allow the downloading of an mp4 file for a small fee? And if you haven't, are you willing to consider such a plan? As someone looking to take more control over when, where, and how they watch videos, I can assure you that there is indeed a market for such products. That's all from me. I hope your milk drinking is going swimmingly, and that the algorithm gods are pleased by your next work.
Train F leaves Fuzzy station chugging at 75km/hr southeast. At Hammer Bro station, train H leaves at exactly the same time chugging at 95km/hr, heading northwest. Both trains are headed for the other one's station. Fuzzy station is at coordinates 37 52, and Hammer Bro station at 65 12. This obviously means that they are 215km apart, but I'm sure you already knew that. Anyways, train F is taking a straight shot to Hammer Bro station, but it'll need to stop for its 30-minute union-regulated lunch break before it gets there. Train H already ate, but it can't also take a straight shot to Fuzzy station, can it? That would put both trains hurdling towards each other on the same track, resulting in an awful explosion! So it needs to take the long way around, adding an extra 45km. Which train reaches its destination first? Bonus points if you figure out what train F ate for lunch.
What music do you like to listen to and who is your favourite artist or band? Secondly have you ever played Fire Emblem and if yes did you like it and what is your opinion on strategy games in general. Love your videos, greetings from Vienna!
How did you first discover the majesty and joy of Fuzzies? I first discovered the beauty and wonder of Yoshis while I was watching my brother play Super Mario World on the Wii Virtual Console; my recognition of the most amazing creature I have ever seen was immediate the first time I saw Mario riding one. Did you have a similar experience, or did you come to admire Fuzzies more gradually? I am also interested to hear any onions you are willing to share regarding AI and its use in games, art, writing, etc. Some people seem to feel very strongly about this; do you have strong onions, not-as-strong ones, or have you not decided yet?
I love your videos and content. I got three questions for you and I am really excited what your thoughts are on these: So first: Austria is hosting the ESC this year. Who do you think will win this year? Which artist is your personal favourite this year? What is your favourite ESC song ever? Second question: did you have the chance to play claire obscure yet? And if yes, what are your thoughts on the game and its themes? Third: I personally love survival games. What is your take on the genre? If you like them, what are your most liked survival games? Thanks and have a fuzzyful evening:)
I have to ask you: Have you already taken a train through the new Koralmtunnel? As someone from Carinthia, I've been to Graz twice since December. If you have nothing to say about that, then I'd like to know for how long you think physical video games will still exist. And if you're in the mood for more question-reading-binge-watching-milk-drinking: Do you prefer watching a movie or watching a series? If you like series, I'd like to know your favorite movie, or vice versa if you like movies.
I've seen a theory where each of the timelines created in OoT represent a manifestation of one of the Triforce powers. Courage from Link's victory timeline, Power from Ganon's victory, and Wisdom from when child Zelda and Link warn the King of Hyrule. It would be neat to explore that, either exploring why the later games fit into the worlds where each respective piece is dominant, or rewriting the timeline so that the games downstream make sense given the imbalance toward a certain Triforce piece. Or... is SMB2 really a dream? Is SMB3 just a play? Is TTYD a play? Is anything real?!
What's your ranking of how much you personally like each of nintendo's handheld consoles - up to you whether or not the switch(2) count as handhelds for this purpose.
What are your thoughts on The Duskbloods? Are you for or against it being focused on competitive multiplayer?
I must say I respect a lazy business strategy! You'd make an excellent tech CEO! As for my contribution, I wanted to ask a bit about your relationship with time! I started watching your channel as a rather young child because I was saving up my allowance for a Wii U so I could buy Super Mario Maker, and while I was saving I watched many Mario Maker videos on Youtube to pass the time, and yours were always my favourite. Now, when I grew up and had long moved on past my excitement for mario maker, you had sort of left the internet, but when you returned you did so with a new air of maturity and philosophy, with longform comprehensive video essays on other games. To my now adult brain, it truly felt like your content had matured at a pace nearly identical to my own self, and as a kid I could watch silly little videos about Mario Maker, and then as I grew into an adult who was interested in the philosophical connotations of my favourite video games, suddenly you were making those as well! So my question is the following: Was this in some way intentional? Did you consider that your audience during your initial years was likely made up of many younger people who will now be older and more mature? Or was it simply a correlation with your own life experiences, with your interests expanding to include more mature and thought provoking conversations about video games? And lastly as a little bonus piece of content for you to steal: Which mario game has the objectively best fuzzies? Thank you for the great content Ceave!
Since this is a channel very serious about the serious topic of marvellous fuzzy creatures I would like to scientifically approve your opinion to few of the most frequent asked Fuzzy questions in history: -If you had to conquer Yoshi's Island how many Fuzzies would you need and what would be the appropiate strategy? -Are Fuzzies angelic creatures that have been able to wittnes everything? -If you had the opportunity to give all the worlds governmental power into the hands of a single Fuzzy, would you do it? -Would you rather fight 100 Fuzzy-sized chickens or 10 chicken-sized fuzzys
Thank you for your content (both on the gaming and the perspective's channel)!!1! As you specifically requested austrian political questions: What is your stance on whether Austria should (or should not) join NATO as it already has a mutual defence clause with the EU which seems less effective and trained than a proper NATO membership? Also what are you thoughts on whether Austria should have a high-seas military navy?
Thank you for the second Q&A since I've been living in regret for not asking anything for the first one, and thank you for your online presence in general! As for the question: who in your opinion has the stronger claim to being Nintendo's first transgender character: Birdo/Birdetta or Vivian? And if I may have another question: I don't recall you ever talking about any roguelikes/roguelites - do you have anything against that genre/concept?
This is less of a question and more of me taking the opportunity to yap about a game I’m obsessed with. BUT: Have you ever played the game “Slay the Princess” and if so, have you considered making a video about it?! I ask this because I am currently a philosophy student writing my thesis about the game and the existential themes within the game! I feel like the stuff I’m looking at would be right at home on ceave perspective next to the outer wilds videos particularly. But there is so much good stuff in slay the princess. From how change is valuable to finding meaning in our life to what you should NOT do with a close relationship (there’s a whole psychological side too) I just want to finish by saying that you’ve been an inspiration for me, I don’t think I would’ve ever considered writing about a video game of all things had I not watched your amazing perspective videos, so thank you. It is a true honor to be a patron.
Woe, my questions forsooth: Have you played ULTRAKILL and would you consider doing a video on its game design? What is your favorite thing about the country you live in? Do you think there is hope for a formally nonbinary mario character? (Nabbit deserves it!! Look at them!!) Aaand hmm... will you do a video on games like Palworld and Hytale going directly after industry giants like Pokemon and Minecraft, and some observed effects of their existence / predictions of how it could impact those giants long term?
Thank you for explaining the meaning of "FAQ" to me. Now I finally understand that it's just a clever business strategy and has absolutely nothing to do with the reproduction of a species. Here are my questions: - How is your Bratpfanne doing, and will we ever see her again? - What did you have for lunch today? - Do you like Spaghetti-Eis? And if so, do you prefer chocolate sauce or strawberry sauce? - Why has nobody made an Asterix Warriors game yet? What is up with that? - Why has nobody made a Detective Conan Ace Attorney game yet? What is up with that? - Who would win in a cooking competition? Bowser, king of the Koopas, or Tingle the fairy? - Which couple would take the win in Let's Dance? Mario & Luigi, Wario & Waluigi, Yoshi & Birdo or Bowser & Peach? - Do you have any more Ceave Perspectives planned in the short term, or are you focussing on Ceave Gaming for the time being? - Do you think the next mainline 3D Mario game will be more exploration/sandbox-based, like Odyssey, or more challenge/level-based, like 3D World? (I'm personally betting on the latter for a number of reasons, but interested in hearing your onion and reasoning). - Do you think there's even the tiniest chance future Zelda games (aside from remakes) will become more linear again or at least slightly move away from the sandbox concept? (Alright, I think that's about enough questions for your tax write-off).
Love the videos. Speaking as an amateur cartographer, does the Holy Roman Empire make any more sense to Austrians, or is that sense of horror over the complexity universal?
Assuming you have a backlog of video games, how do you deal with cataloguing and playing through them? (I personally use backloggery) Also, have you played the Kingdom Hearts games and what are your opinions on them? (They’re some of my favorites) I’m excited to watch your upcoming videos (especially the fuzzy one, since fuzzies are awesome)
Well, joke's on you because your post already answered my main question: "Are you ever going to do another Patreon QnA?" And I didn't even have to ask! Now onto my next questions. I have two that are tangentially related, so feel free to pick your favorite (or answer both). 1. A few years back you made a grand total of two Minecraft videos, and never any other since and it has been an unsolved mystery on your channel. This has led me to wonder. "What do you think of Minecraft as a game?" 2. I have been quite involved in the development of mods and modpacks for Minecraft for the last 2 years (I love my community and dev team they're great), and since game mods are an important part of my gaming habits, I was wondering. "Do you often play games with mods? If yes, which ones? And if no, why?" I could probably think of dozens more questions if I think about it for much longer so I'm gonna stop here and leave some work to everyone else 😅... Wishing you a fuzziful evening! ^^
Hey, love your vids. Quick question, have you ever played “The Return of the Obra Dinn” or “Blue Prince”? If not, I highly recommend! They remind me a bit about outer wilds haha