Solomon Rambling’s Top 10 Saltiest Nintendo Switch Moments

St-st-studdering Along

Another week, another video.  This time, we walk away with three discussion points:

1.

Editor One and I have different styles of humor. I like to think of myself as an absurdist with a tongue-in-cheek, bitterly sarcastic tone.  In reality, I’m mainly self-deprecation accompanied by ridiculous similes.  Editor One, meanwhile, is a meme lord and a master of contradiction, highlighting whenever I mess up, to comedic effect of course.  I find the combination of the two lovely.  I have no intention of combining our styles.  With all of my edited videos, I’m showcasing a dialogue between Editor One and me.  In some cases, I’m literally talking to him.  In between every game for this video, I continued to record, telling Editor One how I wanted to video handled or asking if he noticed how congested I was.  I also know which of my jokes are more likely to strike a chord with him.  On his end, he contributes to the conversation by choosing which segments to include.  He then sprinkles his own humor to the video, like the obnoxious airhorns in the 1-2-Switch section of this video.  Ultimately, Editor One is creating a character, just as I have done with Solomon Rambling.  I’m likely putting a lot more thought into this “dialogue” more than anyone should, but I do find it interesting.  We’ll see how our two funny bones intermingle in the future.

2.

I need to practice on my end. I stutter; I um; and I weave together incoherent sentences.  Although these mistakes are natural, they expose my inexperience.  Many of these issues could be fixed if I stuck to a script, but I’m not quite smitten with this idea.  I like the spontaneity and goofiness of ad-libbing a video.  It carries with it a freedom to say whatever the hell you want.  When I want to be structured and refined and fancy, I can write an article.  I may dabble with scripted videos in the future, but for now, I may focus on some Let’s Plays to train my improv skills.

3.

This is my first video that has a “sister” article. For those of you who skipped Point No. 2, I produce my videos and articles differently.  I believe both are representative of my current skill, but my articles have considerably more thought put into them.  Because I’m infatuated with myself, I did this little experiment to see the differences between a video and an article on the same topic.  The article is here if you want to read it, you masochistic bastard.

Those are the three thoughts I had.  My brain is now completely empty.  Send me your thoughts so I can plagiarize them.