Hey guys,
When you read this it will have been 10 years since the 14th of April 2010, when I first made The Mabeanie Blog. It was a long time ago in a few ways. Obviously 10 years is a good chunk of time, but sometimes it feels like it isn't.
I started this blog because I wanted to document, and to be honest I'm guessing because I didn't do a good job of explaining myself, my progress towards creating Our House. This was a Garry's Mod show that I wanted to make. I was inspired by the Gmod Idiot Box by DasBoSchitt, the Adventures of Coach by Dizztah, and the Gmod Idiot Show by Ihasnotomato. The key part for me was obviously Ihasnotomato's efforts because we'd been friends for many years, and that continues to this day. But I didn't have the game when I started the blog, and I didn't have a strong idea of what I wanted to do, not to mention I didn't know how to make a Gmod show. I knew that I would have to wait a year before I could play Gmod because I was 14 in 2010, and so in 2011 I got the game and started making little skits to get some practice in. I also wrote a script for the show, but really I just didn't have the motivation to actually do it. I threw myself in the deep end and couldn't swim.
Our House feels like yesterday. It feels like I have only just made the decision and am still reluctant to commit to it. My last efforts for the show were in 2013 I think. I got Ihasnotomato to voice one of the characters and managed to make the first scene, but my efforts were few and far between. So that's the story of the blog and why I started it.
From Our House I simply wrote about my efforts on YouTube, and this has evolved into my efforts online in general. I currently blog about my five YouTube channels: Supercars Mabeanie, Mabeanie Games, Mabeanie Talks, SAIM Industries, and Pickle-Shaped Peanuts; that is additional to my comic book series Hale Kane that I post on DeviantART.
April 14th, 2010 feels like a long time ago because I can't remember what it was like to be me back then. I have a vague idea because key elements of who I am existed back then. But I have to think about what sort of things I used to do. I will elaborate on this sort of thing in a year-by-year discussion series that will go on Mabeanie Talks and which is specifically about my YouTube career.
So the 14th is the blog's anniversary, and then the 17th is Supercars Mabeanie's anniversary, and the 21st is Mabeanie Games' anniversary. Lastly is a film series that I have made occasionally and which is not viewable online. It will be 10 years old on the 4th of October.
Do milestones matter? Yes, to some extent it is important to look back at what you've done and be glad that you made the commitment in the first place. Few people do, and when you do it yourself you should congratulate yourself for trying at all. On the other hand, it is also important to move forward and think about what you are doing right now and what you might do in the future.
If you dwell on the past, you might forget about what you are doing in the present. Right now I have quite a few plans for the future of my five YouTube channels, have been working on the next three Hale Kane Comics after a long period of retconning the series, and am also working on the 2020 edition of my film project. It will be the last of that project, and I also very much look forward to what I am able to produce beyond Hale Kane and the film project. Committing to one thing for a long time makes it hard to come up with new ideas, and I look forward to that challenge. I am a creative person and it is very important for me to maximise that when I can.
I am thankful for 10 years. I know that I wanted to do this for a long time when I started, and 10 years is certainly a long time. Let's go another 10! Wouldn't that be awesome? I think that it will be, but of course I am also looking forward to whatever comes next. One day I will be too busy to keep this up and will have to make difficult choices like call an end to the blog. But at the same time I have always found time to make things and so I will probably be able to make at least one post per year anyway. But yeah, let's keep going!
See Ya!
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Saturday, March 21, 2020
Looking for the bright light
Hey guys,
I'm sure everybody is trying to find their feet at the moment with Coronavirus measures in place.
The effects on my life are somewhat concerning, but for me the biggest bummers are about sports.
AFL is kinda continuing, but man it's just not the same. You can actually hear what the players are saying and it just feels ghostly and pointless.
Supercars will launch its e-series at the end of the month, and I am very happy with Sean Seamer's response. He led the way for world motorsport categories by announcing the e-series, and I was shocked by how slowly Formula One responded. God knows what's happening with Moto GP. So I have fired up the PlayStation 2 again and recorded some races of V8 Supercars 3. I was going to record a third round tonight, but I have a cold. Hopefully it's not stage 1 of COVID-19.
Anyway, the Adelaide round is on my Mabeanie Games channel and my god it's 2 hours long. Still, it was an intense round and it looks like my Holden championship is going to be every bit as exciting and challenging as the Ford one was. Bear in mind that I hadn't played the game since April 2019, so almost a year.
I'm thinking about getting back into making Mabeanie Talks videos, but we'll see.
At the moment, I'm trying to fill my life with as much positivity and happiness as possible and people being bummers are pissing me off.
Let's be positive and find the happiness!!!
See Ya!
I'm sure everybody is trying to find their feet at the moment with Coronavirus measures in place.
The effects on my life are somewhat concerning, but for me the biggest bummers are about sports.
AFL is kinda continuing, but man it's just not the same. You can actually hear what the players are saying and it just feels ghostly and pointless.
Supercars will launch its e-series at the end of the month, and I am very happy with Sean Seamer's response. He led the way for world motorsport categories by announcing the e-series, and I was shocked by how slowly Formula One responded. God knows what's happening with Moto GP. So I have fired up the PlayStation 2 again and recorded some races of V8 Supercars 3. I was going to record a third round tonight, but I have a cold. Hopefully it's not stage 1 of COVID-19.
Anyway, the Adelaide round is on my Mabeanie Games channel and my god it's 2 hours long. Still, it was an intense round and it looks like my Holden championship is going to be every bit as exciting and challenging as the Ford one was. Bear in mind that I hadn't played the game since April 2019, so almost a year.
I'm thinking about getting back into making Mabeanie Talks videos, but we'll see.
At the moment, I'm trying to fill my life with as much positivity and happiness as possible and people being bummers are pissing me off.
Let's be positive and find the happiness!!!
See Ya!
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Lots of good stuff
Hey guys,
Been a rough week at work. Had to come early yesterday after my arms started to get sore and so it's been tough on that end of things.
Meanwhile, Hale Kane Comics is now in a truly exciting position. I made a big decision with Ihasnotomato and have also begun writing Hale Kane #18. I have a draft from 2016, but it isn't what I want. I did a DeviantART journal that goes into a bit more detail.
On the video side of things, SAIM is doing it tough with views around zero, Pickle-Shaped Peanuts doing worse but I missed an upload day, and neither Mabeanie Games nor Mabeanie Talks have received videos in the last few weeks because I've been busy. One the other hand, I have 3 Supercars videos to do. I have my SuperLite video, 2020 predictions video now that the pre-season test is over, and just now I had an idea for another video about how drivers get good through experience in the category or experience in other categories. Just have to find a moment to record the audio for the first two. The third one will require lots of work.
Anyway, the Resurrect a Race Team video is about to pass 1000 views, so that's nice. Enjoy generally.
See Ya!
Been a rough week at work. Had to come early yesterday after my arms started to get sore and so it's been tough on that end of things.
Meanwhile, Hale Kane Comics is now in a truly exciting position. I made a big decision with Ihasnotomato and have also begun writing Hale Kane #18. I have a draft from 2016, but it isn't what I want. I did a DeviantART journal that goes into a bit more detail.
On the video side of things, SAIM is doing it tough with views around zero, Pickle-Shaped Peanuts doing worse but I missed an upload day, and neither Mabeanie Games nor Mabeanie Talks have received videos in the last few weeks because I've been busy. One the other hand, I have 3 Supercars videos to do. I have my SuperLite video, 2020 predictions video now that the pre-season test is over, and just now I had an idea for another video about how drivers get good through experience in the category or experience in other categories. Just have to find a moment to record the audio for the first two. The third one will require lots of work.
Anyway, the Resurrect a Race Team video is about to pass 1000 views, so that's nice. Enjoy generally.
See Ya!
Thursday, January 23, 2020
Elaborating on my goals for 2030
Hey guys,
yes you read that correctly. My goals for the end of this brand spanking new decade are up for discussion here.
I talk about them in this Friday Night Fun episode:
I wish I did this years ago. I keep wondering what I would have wanted to have achieved by now, but I know that it would be more than I have achieved. I disappoint myself, but the best thing to do is press on and keep working away at what you want to do.
Anyway, I said in my FNF episode that I wanted to have made some sort of organisation for my video games business, had a kid, and still be doing my hobby stuff. Well here I'm going to elaborate on the hobby stuff.
yes you read that correctly. My goals for the end of this brand spanking new decade are up for discussion here.
I talk about them in this Friday Night Fun episode:
I wish I did this years ago. I keep wondering what I would have wanted to have achieved by now, but I know that it would be more than I have achieved. I disappoint myself, but the best thing to do is press on and keep working away at what you want to do.
Anyway, I said in my FNF episode that I wanted to have made some sort of organisation for my video games business, had a kid, and still be doing my hobby stuff. Well here I'm going to elaborate on the hobby stuff.
Saturday, January 18, 2020
Friday Night Fun records
Hey guys,
I think it will be fun if I write down the big records that I've set myself in my show Friday Night Fun.
First of all is the most consecutive episodes, which is 8 set in 2018 on what is now Supercars Mabeanie.
5th, 12th, 19th, 26th of January, 2nd, 9th, 16th, and 23rd of February, 2018.
Then there's the longest Friday Night Fun episode which is 22nd of December 2017's TF2 with friends. It's 2 hours long!
I would put the shortest as a record, but usually it happens because of time constraints or because I had trouble getting it set up and was exhausted by the end.
Another could be the most consecutive episodes in which I play the same game. It was three consecutive episodes in which I played Assetto Corsa's V8s Corsa mod. This took place in the middle of 2018 with two episodes on Mabeanie Games to test the waters and then one on Supercars Mabeanie.
I can't think of any other kinds of records that would be interesting enough to write about, so I'll leave it as it is. Thanks for reading. Check out the episodes if you want.
See Ya!
I think it will be fun if I write down the big records that I've set myself in my show Friday Night Fun.
First of all is the most consecutive episodes, which is 8 set in 2018 on what is now Supercars Mabeanie.
5th, 12th, 19th, 26th of January, 2nd, 9th, 16th, and 23rd of February, 2018.
Then there's the longest Friday Night Fun episode which is 22nd of December 2017's TF2 with friends. It's 2 hours long!
I would put the shortest as a record, but usually it happens because of time constraints or because I had trouble getting it set up and was exhausted by the end.
Another could be the most consecutive episodes in which I play the same game. It was three consecutive episodes in which I played Assetto Corsa's V8s Corsa mod. This took place in the middle of 2018 with two episodes on Mabeanie Games to test the waters and then one on Supercars Mabeanie.
I can't think of any other kinds of records that would be interesting enough to write about, so I'll leave it as it is. Thanks for reading. Check out the episodes if you want.
See Ya!
Wednesday, January 1, 2020
Cherry-picking my 2019
Hey guys,
2019 was a weird year for my Supercars Mabeanie channel.
The numbers don't look good overall, and from my simplified graph you can see that it's looking worse than in the last few years. Keep in mind that I only posted Supercars videos throughout most of 2019, which is 5 videos.
Per video, the views were really good with 350+ on the Scott McLaughlin video and 730+ on the Resurrect a Race Team video.
I gained 10 subscribers, and am now sitting at 100. I haven't seen that big a gain since 2014.
I got 30 likes, which is very good considering the number of videos and that most of the likes went to those videos.
I got 5 comments, but they were meaningful and good conversations so I'm happy with the engagement.
In terms of audience, my channel has changed from 18-30 year olds and gaming videos to a 30-40 year old Supercars audience. So it's looking good for 2020. I just have to get more videos done to make the most of it. No pressure though. I like to make good videos and so they'll come when they do.
Overall, it was a mixed year but per video it was really good. No regrets moving to a Supercars-only design for 2019 and beyond. I just wish that I had got all of my old content done before the year began, with that last-minute Minecraft Seedscribers video popping up on New Year's Day. Anyway, things are looking good for 2020.
On my other channels, I'm playing more Sims 3 so I could have my generational series done at some stage this year. It will go up on Mabeanie Games.
On Mabeanie Talks, today marked the first episode of a new batch of Mabeanie and Ihasnotomato videos. Of course, I still want to do conversations with other YouTubers.
Anyway, that's my update.
See Ya!
2019 was a weird year for my Supercars Mabeanie channel.
The numbers don't look good overall, and from my simplified graph you can see that it's looking worse than in the last few years. Keep in mind that I only posted Supercars videos throughout most of 2019, which is 5 videos.
Per video, the views were really good with 350+ on the Scott McLaughlin video and 730+ on the Resurrect a Race Team video.
I gained 10 subscribers, and am now sitting at 100. I haven't seen that big a gain since 2014.
I got 30 likes, which is very good considering the number of videos and that most of the likes went to those videos.
I got 5 comments, but they were meaningful and good conversations so I'm happy with the engagement.
In terms of audience, my channel has changed from 18-30 year olds and gaming videos to a 30-40 year old Supercars audience. So it's looking good for 2020. I just have to get more videos done to make the most of it. No pressure though. I like to make good videos and so they'll come when they do.
Overall, it was a mixed year but per video it was really good. No regrets moving to a Supercars-only design for 2019 and beyond. I just wish that I had got all of my old content done before the year began, with that last-minute Minecraft Seedscribers video popping up on New Year's Day. Anyway, things are looking good for 2020.
On my other channels, I'm playing more Sims 3 so I could have my generational series done at some stage this year. It will go up on Mabeanie Games.
On Mabeanie Talks, today marked the first episode of a new batch of Mabeanie and Ihasnotomato videos. Of course, I still want to do conversations with other YouTubers.
Anyway, that's my update.
See Ya!
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