Keystrokes | Bio's Random Short Video Series

[Biodegradable]

For the last 6 months, I've been getting back in touch with my writing by working on a new personal video essay. While that essay's script is done, putting the video together has been very slow because of how increasingly busy I've been with my editing job lately. That being said, writing the essay has really lit a fire under my arse and I haven't stopped writing since. I've become very much inspired by a lot of the creative non-fiction I've been reading and it has me writing more about all sorts of random things, spinning off from the theme of my video essay which is all about letting go of perfection and just creating for the sake of it, making anything about anything. So I've been writing short musing about all manner of topics and I've begun making short videos out them. I've decided to call the series Keystrokes in regards to how - a great deal of the time - these works seem to fall out of me at the keyboard in a stream-of-consciousness or haze of automatic writing.

 

It's going to be a regular series of videos about random topics that come to mind and I plan on releasing them on a bi-weekly basis - or at the very least attempt to - and the first one is available now. Unlike the essay - which I'm still slowly working on - I'm somewhat confident I can produce these relatively frequently. So for those of you who might find that sort of thing interesting, I'll be updating this thread whenever a new video comes out. Here's the first one:

 

 

Edited February 21, 2023 by Biodegradable

[taufan99]

I honestly have a soft spot for videos like this. It reminds me that the simpler side of internet entertainment is still here to stay, no matter how much or little attention they garner.

[Steve D]

As a self-taught hunt-and-peck typist who can manage a whole 38 wpm, and who dreads any job description that includes the words "typing test", a running clock would be akin to pointing a gun at my head. Fun video, fam. :)

[Biodegradable]

Here's the newest video:

 

 

[Murdoch]

Heh, I have been a fast typer as long as I can remember. I have worked with computers for... hmm... 31 years now. I basically taught myself starting at age 12, then there was a short typing class at high school when I was 14. This annoying jackass kept pointing out I wasn't using the home keys. He was being such a dick I called the teacher over who basically said "Whatever works for you is fine Joel." I turned back to the jackass and said something like "There, now shut up".

 

As for the apocalypse survival, yeah I mostly agree. If I somehow did survive out in the open, I would fight on, that's in my nature. But years, if not decades trapped in a tiny limited environment waiting for the "yeah I think we won't die horribly within seconds of stepping outside"? Nope. I would be clawing at the walls before the end of the first week. I'd rather ride the mushroom cloud into the next life.

[Biodegradable]

 

[Steve D]

As regards surviving the apocalypse, I completely agree. First, I am far too old to be grubbing about an irradiated landscape searching for food and shelter while trying to avoid roving bands of murderous teenagers and young adults. I'd last a couple days before I was felled, fileted, roasted, and served to the gang with a side of potatoes.

 

I consider myself fortunate in that, even though I'm in a smallish metro, I live within half a mile of a major defense manufacturer. This means that at least one, probably two warheads are assigned for this city. As a result, when the airburst happens, I may well see a flash of light for about a millisecond before the shockwave hits and I'm on my way, more or less painlessly, to oblivion.

 

Much the same would happen if I moved to Chicago or back to Seattle. Upwards of 15 warheads will hit each city, or perhaps only 8 if they're really big ones, say 1-megaton yields.

 

So I guess you can say I'm sitting pretty. If the nuclear holocaust comes, I'll be taken out with lightning speed! ;D

[Biodegradable]

Here's one about the time I accidentally committed arson.

 

 

[taufan99]

Wasteland: I honestly would be fine with the Apocalypse as well. Perhaps this part is far more personal, but as a religious person, I'm much more worried about my own current deeds; will I be good enough or not? Anyway, yeah, I wouldn't want to live in a nuclear wasteland with mutated beings, much less get nearby turf wars surrounding such a post-apocalyptic society.

 

What Day Is It?: I just graduated with a bachelor's degree earlier this year, and thinking about job hunting exhausts me just as much as your own experience as described in the video. With some of my friends having earned a job that secures a stable income for them, it keeps getting on me that I still have yet to earn one myself, even as I've got one remote freelance position (especially since I've yet to actually start working there). Add that to my pushful father rubbing salt to my wound, which just further gives me headaches.

 

Juvenile Stupidity: This reminds me of my early 2019 experience, where I just bought a lighter for shits and giggles and burned random small things.... inside my lodging house room. There's this one time where I burned a piece of tissue with it. Fortunately, I got to turn off the fire, before anything worse happened. To say it was quite shocking is an understatement. Hard lesson learned.

[Biodegradable]

Existentialism and birds.

 

 

[Biodegradable]

I made a video about how long-term exposure to the internet's endless supply of information might be harmful.