Nearly a week off posting constantly on Facebook and Twitter, here's what I've found:

1. Video games are getting better graphically and the writing is improving slightly, however game mechanics are getting worse and lack of detail is what turns off the majority of gamers to sequels. This makes sense as graphical fidelity is praised and mechanics are needed to be made simpler for multiple control schemes. This has been proven time and time again with the modern video game cycle and the rise of Open World Games. When autonomy and wanting to explore took over more than 30% of the gaming market, why try and make a new way to play video games? The people really pushing games forward are independent artists experimenting with new systems of gameplay and how to connect with audiences. You won’t be hearing or seeing that from EA, Ubisoft or even Valve anytime soon.

2. Paul Simon wrote Call Me Al about the fact he was worried about being irrelevant after almost 2 decades in music. A lot of 80s musicians were really worried about staying relevant, despite the fact 90% of the shallow pop hits are forgotten to time akin to that of The Archie's Sugar, Sugar being the #1 Billboard Hit the same year the Stones released Let It Bleed. The point is, people who complain about The Chainsmokers winning a Grammy are idiots and should just enjoy the music they play. You have to remember that the current generation won’t be in power of culture until you’re long dead. Also Closer isn’t that bad, compared to this garbage.

3. The Australian Government Median Age is almost the exact same as that of Australia's TV viewing audience. This explains so much for why people vote who they vote for and try and appease their older audience. I get why they’re afraid and appear to be so greedy because they stopped caring about anyone but their family years ago. Then again, I feel as though they’ve already ingrained such as strong political imprint in their children who will continue to vote the same way, like they’re supporting a Sports Team their Dad loved. It’s not a sports team, they are people in charge of nearly aspect of you or your friends life and politicians will continue to ruin it. More people should talk about politics with one another not about who they voted for or who they’re going to vote for but what they genuinely care about in terms of the nation, or even just starting at their family. You’d get a lot more stuff done than just treating it like it’s a long ass reality game show where there’s no immunity and we all end up dead as a result.

4. Spaceballs does not hold up well and there are a lot of 80s specific references that date it worse than the "Whazzup" scene in Scary Movie. Trying to watch it with someone who has no concept of what 80s comedies were like or parody films or who “the Doublemint Twins” were must be insane. However, it's still kinda fun and John Candy's performance is quite underrated for what is just a very simple joke of "hey, Chewbacca is like Han Solo's dog". It’s at best a 6/10 film and at worst a 5/10 comedy. They “We Ain’t Found Shit” and the meta “This is Happening Now” jokes are still really funny. We all miss Rick Moranis. Also President Skroob is just anagram of Mel Brooks last name.

5. After reading more than 20 articles about and by Milo Yiannapolous, he is just a pure narcissist and his biggest fear is being considered boring and possibly brown people. He is just a pawn of the Alt-Right and will be pushed aside as others with more money, a louder, more conservative voice and a stronger agenda with a slightly more mature voice.
Whether or not he really has other publishers lined up, time will tell, but not many mass-producing publishers will be able to fight back against a strong "your author may have said some pro-paedophilia stuff" stance. He’ll probably end up posting it one page at a time on his Instagram and get funding through Patreon now he’s been hit where he hurts, in the capitalist pocket. I don’t know what he can do next, but regardless, the Alt-Right movement doesn’t need him any more.

6. My relationship with social media is unhealthy and I’m reassessing why I post content and who is it for. I know I use social media for my work and have to use it every single day for what I do, but the whole week I stopped myself from posting content on fifteen separate occasions because I decided to check myself and why I was posting something. Do I even have a remote connection to the TV Show Girls? I liked reviewing it when that’s what I did for a living, but honestly, know like two people who watch it. Two people out of a total of 1,000 people. That’s fucking insane. It’’s like if you made a David Lynch film but decided to market it towards mothers who are fans of Death Grips and just happen to have post-natal depression.

I post stuff constantly and expect so much in return and it’s fucking insane. I waste so much time and have found over the past seven days that I’m reading more and connecting again with what I like and why I like it. I think this is something I’ve lost so much from using Facebook and Twitter where I treat the content that I post — not create- post as some kind of shitty human aggregator, is a “skill” — I guess it kind of is, but if that was the case, I would have gotten a job out of it years ago. My job right now is to find cool stuff, talk and connect with people and I fucking adore that. I adore that and love it to pieces because it speaks to me as a human being in every single way. I was feeling so horrible all week, not just from the sickness but what I felt was like social media withdrawal and then I went and did a gig on Thursday night all the way out in Ormond, just over 40 minutes out of the city and I was feeling horrible for more than 5 days straight and the second I spoke with someone else, just a good friend of mine, I perked up instantly. It took no more than 5 minutes of talking with someone I’d barely known for a year to turn everything around so quickly. We talked about what they were up to and doing for Adelaide Fringe and I was so overwhelmed with how happy I was just speaking with them that I had to excuse myself briefly to go get a drink of water to stop myself from choking up. It felt good. It felt real good. It felt real and that’s the most important thing. That should always be the most important
I also cried the next day watching a scene from Futurama where Fry talks with his mother. Now can I share that on Facebook? No. I can’t and I didn’t have to. That question should just stop being apart of my mentality and I should just enjoy what I find and what I have because what I have is actually pretty amazing right now. Who knows, I might go back to posting garbage next week but it was nice to see what happens when I purge it for a couple days.

7. Media Watch is far better than Q & A. This is more just a personal opinion than anything else because Media Watch is a show about analytics and facts and trying to dig through the garbage that is the media at large. I wish I ran the ABC to make that show run every goddamn day of my life. I would give Paul Barry a golden throne to sit at and just yell “MEDIA WATCH!” at the start of every episode as if we rebooted Gladiators, but this time, he deploys a group of researchers and experts who go out and shows every single TV show and website about how horrible they are at Fact Checking™. At the end of every week, they literally get the worst journalists and hose them down with bile and watch their skin and clothes burn before screaming MEDIA WAAAATCH yet again. (They obviously give them clothes and tend to their wounds after the show because Mr. Barry is a benevolent God.)
Q & A is good. It’s good to have this debate. Other people say it’s pointless, but at the very least it gets politicians and human muppets face to face with the people they talk about every day when they say “society” or just “they”. It’s not a horrible show and far better than almost anything on Sky News or any show that pretends to have a “debate” when the whole panel is male and they’re talking about gender diversity in the workplace or about the lack of colourful pigmentation on Australian screens and they all look like a group of people auditioning to play the Ghost of Christmas Past without any make up on.

8. I would rather spend a full 20 hours on a creative project than 2 hours at work any day of the week. My goal at the beginning of this year was to spend the first two months working on content every single day, even if it was for just an hour a day. So far the results have been quite good. More than 30,000 views on content and reaching more than 500,000 people on 3 different platforms and collaborating with more than two dozen different people in the first month. Yes, the sickness was a set back and counted as “research time” considering all I could do was sleep, vomit and read. I also found that creating content is getting more and more fulfilling.

I’ve long thought of the hard slog of working through making content as being this grinding process and now that I’ve started to take it seriously, nearly 55 days in, I’ve found it keeps getting easier and easier as the days go on. Yes, sometimes I’m up till 1am making those fine tweaks on an animation or just making sure the sound is right just before an upload, but I got to sleep so satisfied and content that I just can’t wait for people to watch or listen to it. Even if it’s just a 100 people, it’s nice to know they took to the time to consume it. I know I can’t make a living out of it. I know that’s not realistic. I know I don’t have enough people to support me, I know I don’t have a big audience, I know it all takes time, but I know that when and if that day does come, I’ll be ready — I’ll be so goddamn ready, I’ll be there with fucking bells on and a whistle to start my own fucking race.

9. Life is too short not to block people who do nothing but repeatedly offer up comments without any facts or reasoning to their opinions. Especially if they continue to fight semiotics and semantics and not the fact that the people in power are not only in power due to influence and wealth, but also because they have a great control of their narrative. At the end of the day, the people who are poor and fight for the rich, will not only end up with empty pockets and an empty soul, but also will continue to fight for something emptier than their arguments.

10. I have a lot of friends who are doing more creatively than most people with full Hollywood films. I appreciate that so much. They're also way more photogenic, kind and friendly than their running gags and absurd behaviour would have you believe.

So anyway, 6 days and a couple of days without posting content and checking social media every goddamn hour of everyday is pretty great. I’d highly recommend it. Delete the Facebook app just for a day. If you can do it for Uber after literally 3 years of doing horrible shit. Keep Messenger, you know just in case, but look, I’m not your Dad I’m not gonna tell you how to run your life. The point is right now, my life is pretty good and I take a lot of it for fucking granted and I should keep making stuff.