I became homeless last week. Wrote the rest of my screenplay today. And now I'm living in a youth shelter and putting myself back together. Thank you for the inspiration and love Matt. You dont know me. But you helped me! Love you brother.
I've been making art recently, and it's exactly your attitude, articulated clearly here but mentioned many times in the past, that prompted me. We need good art now more than ever. Our ancestors gave us important discoveries and even more important questions, and it is our duty to continue that tradition. Come hellish heat or increasingly high water, we will leave a collective legacy.
As with many of your videos, Matt, you put fitting words to things I can only feel but not describe. Thanks for helping me understand my own mind a little better!
"We make art, we do it to survive". This holds so much truth for me during the last couple of years, and I expect that it will continue to. Thank you Matt, this video came at the perfect time, this holiday season right before the new year. Hell and high water comes for me and many others at the start of 2023, but we will always have art.
Love it! You always find a way to communicate deeply to the human soul Matt! I often feel like a minority in these channels (high fantasy/gaming) because I am a “religious” Christian. It can be difficult at times because just about every fantasy UA-camr mocks my faith at this point, I get why btw. There’s a lot of thing to be frustrated about. Art does find a way to unite us, as does this D&D hobby. I started DM’ing bc I watched Matt’s first RTG videos. For me, (I know everyone doesn’t see it this way) there’s no one more creative than God. And if indeed we were made in His image, we were made to create! To dive into narratives, music, paints, stories. I think it’s a reflection of how we were made. There’s always hope. And everyone/anyone can be an expression of that hope through creativity.
Thank you for sharing this. I have literally made art to survive before, and will again. It's nice to have that feeling so perfectly encapsulated in this piece. It's funny that you and Zoe Bee made very similar pieces on this subject (from your own unique perspectives of course) within hours of eachother. They feel like campfires casting warm pools of light in the darkness where we can gather and shelter together. I needed this.
Alright, that's it. You're my definitive internet dad. You don't know me at all, but... you must know me a little. Because, to some extent, you have to know yourself and, looking at the ways that you present yourself on here, you appear to be in the same classes I'm trying level up in but so many levels ahead of me that, even though those words might be simple matters of fact for you; for me, valuable and delicious wisdom seeps through every single word you say. I really love it here. Thanks, internet dad.
Thank you so much ! This is a great video on so many levels. Casually deep and very inspiring too. I do make art also, not as a living (as so many artists out there). The focus, the meaning, the beauty brought by art and its practice, it’s all in your video. I'll try to share it as much as I can, though I may need to translate it in french for some ofbmy friends and family. Is there a way I can submit french subtitles?
Matt: *Speaking profound truths on art and the human condition* Also Matt: "I prefer physical knobs" My brain: "You're a physical knob" Please send help.
I relate to this so much. I worked for a veterinarian 10 years ago and he got me on the verbal tic/meme of introducing the phrase of "you're a (word just said)." It's as much a curse as self-awareness is.
That rack you see being assembled in the first 30 seconds isn't "real" it's just a bunch of modules I thought would be fun to film doing their thing. soundcloud.com/matt-colville/tracks
Omg thank you for this, Matt. UK medic here, specialising in mental health. I recommend creativity every day. It's powerful to be able to say 'i wrote this song' or 'i cooked this meal' or even 'i knitted this sweater'. It empowers us in a world that we are otherwise powerless to affect. Know that you help others, thousands of miles away. Junior doctors here no longer have time for D&D any more, but your musings always bring me a smile
"We know, and we know we know." Thats gonna stick with me as I go to bed. Thank you for articulating something I've been aware of, but couldn't describe until now. Its the awareness of my awareness that informs a lot of my disposition. Also, I really enjoyed this video. I will definitely watch again tomorrow and continue working on my own art. Thank you for inspiring me to create. :)
Humans are too fragile and physical for how intellectually advanced they became. They were meant to be good enough to chase antelopes and fight off tigers; now they have tools to hunt down every single antelope and tiger in the world should there be a need to, but every action hurts more because you are aware of it. And you'll be aware of it for far longer, because instead of just surviving long enough to leave the next of kin and perishing, you'll live four times as long and have enough time to think about it. ...hopefully you will. Because when it comes to, a sharpened stick is as effective as it used to be.
Let's do it. We're always concerned with what's urgent, and we put off what is important. Whatever it is your project, let 2023 be the year it finally gets made. I recently started drawing the comic book I've had in my heart for years. The script has been ready for a while. Now it's the time to make it come true.
You have no idea the depth of the pitch dark place you pulled me out of because of this video. Seriously, this video is going into the playlist that I watch when I feel like the world would be better without me. I spent the rest of this evening after watching this video reading my old poetry and writing new poetry and sending it to my sister. Thank you Matt. You never cease to inspire me.
This is the most beautiful video I've ever seen on UA-cam. Thank you, Matt. The rise of AI-art is scaring a lot of artists. Finding this video feels like the discovery of a pond in the desert. Fresh water against the scary times. We press on. We make art.
Mr. Colville, your art helps to make a dark, scary world a little less dark, and a little less scary, for at least this one person. Thank you for everything you do.
I'm usually here for D&D but man this was a good one. It can be tough to remember in this day and age that it's important to do/create things for their own sake. Not because it's profitable or efficient or anything else. Once again Matt coming in with an amazing video!
This is a very nice video, and if I am understanding it correctly a very clever way to talk about a thing while saying something else (which is by itself important and inspirational). I wish you and MCDM all the best in the coming months and we at least can look forward to seeing how the seeds will grow after the coming fire.
Hearing Matt Colville talk about Four Tet gave me world-void. As an electronic musician, I appreciate hearing Matt talk about what it means to him, and what it might mean to others.
My love for creating art saved my life. You were one of the first channels I found when I set out on my quest of being a DM. That was about 6 years ago. Cheers Matt and here's to many more years together🍺
You forgot to mention a very important form of Art that you make. These videos, all your videos, they are a form of art and one that matters deeply to many people. Videos like this are why I enjoy watching and listening to your content Matt, the introspection, the deep thought, it inspires me to make my own art. So thank you Mr Colville, and I hope you're doing okay
I needed this this morning!.. been struggling with the world recently, but art is so important to me. So thank you Colville! Reminds me of reading the Birth of Tragedy and reading that Nietzsche said “[it is art] through which life is made both possible and worth living.” I needed to read that then and I needed to be reminded today
4:28 I know Matt wrote Priest and Thief when he felt creatively stifled and he has had plenty of creative stimulation in the past several years, but dammit I still want to see this book series continue! When I finished Priest for the first time several years ago, I was hooked. I'm just hoping that the series gets a conclusion and doesn't forever sit in limbo like the Game of Thrones novels.
During COVID, I got into learning simple programming for creating games. That was one of the most anxious and scary periods of my life, and I began to teach myself to make art. Mostly it was just learning how to replicate existing games like Frogger or a crane game, but I would also noodle away at a couple of projects that deliberately felt lonely and hollow. One was a game about flying a spaceship into an infinite space, where you could just fly in any direction forever and never find anything except more stars. Another was a Yume Nikki-esque dreamscape about my own personal experiences and traumas, abstracted with small cubes. That second one was especially important for me because I wanted to know that if somebody else picked up that game and played it, they would have no idea what was even happening. I just needed an outlet for my fears and anxieties in a way that only made sense to me.
I adore this kind of video Matt. I'm only twenty, but I was sixteen when I found your videos. I wanted to create art before then, but I realised that I wanted to _be_ and artist and to _lead a creative life_ as you say after listening to you. I've learned that lesson over and over again, and I've also learned what _kind_ of artist I want to be from many other people as well. But it really did start with finding you at the perfect time in my teenage upbringing, right when my inspiration was starting to rise, but my direction was lacking. Thank you, earnestly and deeply, thank you.
This feels like one of those videos I will be coming back to again and again over the years as a comforting reminder when I feel crushed as an artist. Your videos on D&D may have been what drew me in originally, but it's the ones like this that reach into my heart. Thanks Matt.
I hope you make your own TTRPG because I'm tired of WOTC's 5e. the Illrigger is the most fun I've had playing 5e. I'd rather play your content than give Hasbro a single dime.
I can't help but watch this in context with everything that's happening so I just wanted to say: you, Matt, have been an invaluable addition to mine and my players art over the years. I hope you are doing well and I wish the best for all this storm to pass safely.
I'm not sure this was the best video to watch while waking up, but wow. Five minutes for complete graduate courses on Audio, Art, and Psycology along with an ad so cleanly included that you barely realize it's an ad. Excelent video Matt. I think I'm going to have to watch this again once I wake up. Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year, Matt and Everyone.
Wow, there are few videos, lectures, recordings out there that are so succinct and accurate. You were able to take a lot of thoughts and concepts I've had at different points in my life and pool them together so harmoniously, and it's exactly what I needed at this point in time. From the bottom of my heart, this random guy on the internet just wants to say thank you. I can think more clearly on some topics that have been bothering me, and that's huge.
"I refuse to say consuming it" Oh god thanks for saying that, I feel less like a grumpy weirdo-- because for the longest time the modern parlance "consuming media" has driven me insane. It actually makes me feel gross to say
This is my favorite video you've ever made. So fucking powerful, man. You've given me clarity on things that would take to long to explain here but thank you. I'll see you on stream.
Hey Matt, just saying that you've been a tremendous inspiration for how I run my games, and my philosophy on running games. You've helped me a lot during my years of trouble. Thanks for that.
I'm always impressed when Matt is able to plainly articulate thoughts I've had for decades, but have never been able to put into words. "Cursed by consciousness" is a hell of a phrase to sum up some of the worse aspects of anxiety.
I may be wrong but I believe this is Matt's answer to the death of the OGL and Hasbro/WOTC (AKA the NATC's). When the ash settles Matt and you need investors for you to buy the shell of WOTC when HASBRO has to spin it off b/c they ran it into the ground. We'll crowd source it man. Love the Black Sabbath albums :)
I kinda skipped this video when it dropped. Not because I wasn't interested in it or anything I just wasn't in the headspace for it. I still wasn't when I listened to it now I was kind of having a weird episode. But this sort of philosophical existential kind of dialogue helped ground me. I usually just listen to the Running the Game videos to prepare myself for DnD, and even in this case it helped. So thanks for this Matt. It was just nice.
This helped me a lot. I'm sure it's helped a lot of people, this is hardly an original comment on a video like this, but I just wanted to thank you. This helped me.
Beautiful video!! This is how I feel about drawing and painting with physical implements!! I also appreciate avoiding the word “consume” in favor of “experience”. That’s some good John Dewey stuff there!
I saw this video on release... and every week or so... i come back and listen again. It's wild how you can change someone's life in just 5 minutes. Thank you, Matt.
I've set myself a couple of challenges for the upcoming year: 1- Make one room for a dungeon a day, with the goal of having a nice 12 level, 365 (is 2023 a leap year?) room mega dungeon by next december. 2- Read a book a month. It's been a good year or two since I actually sat down & really read a book. Priest is on the list for some time in.. spring? Summer? One of those. I remember finding it moving when I first read it, & I can't wait to get back to it.
It's strange how we get meaning from things in our life when we need it most. I just had my first child a month ago and I'm... struggling, to say the least. I can't pinpoint any one thing you said in this video that helped me with this time in my life, but it's in there somewhere. Thank you for what you do and your dedication to the people that look up to you.
I typically don't click on your non-D&D videos unless I'm super interested in the topic but I'm so happy I decided to click on this one. Definitely a well worded and much appreciated message
I recently got back into creating my webcomics a few months ago, after a year-long creative slump brought on by depression; it was going to ComicCon and experiencing the abundance of creative energy that was the last step I needed to pull myself out. Now that I'm creating again, I've been feeling so much better about myself and my life as a whole.
This was mesmerizing. I had to spent so much on my 9-5 lately, and I don't even know how much I missed creating stuff. Be it stupid UA-cam videos that people dislike, ugly paintings and scuffed miniatures, or running crappy DnD games - it's still nice to express yourself and be able to say "This might not be good, but I enjoyed making it and I want to share it.". I'll keep this video in my "Motivation" playlist and come back to it every now and then. :)
Your streams are one of the reasons I got into modular, and it kinda changed my life after other kinds of art art became difficult due to life stuff. Art is so important. So glad you made this.
Very beautifully said Matt! I picked up pencil drawing during the pandemic and I has become an opportunity to keep myself safe and zen for a few hours on a shite day.
i haven't been watching the vods of the streams for about half a year now i reckon, and this felt like a very warm blanket draped around me. you help a lot, matt. thank you so much.
Thank you, Mr. Colville. Art is the only thing that keeps me on the material plane, and what you do is part of that art. Thank you for this video. Thank you for everything.
This video has changed my life, and I cannot express my thanks for that enough. I had no idea you were into modular! But that got me hooked into the video, and I had no clue how much I needed to hear the messages here. I've spent most of my life believing others and (worse) myself that I'm not creative or "arty" in any way. I'd freeze when pressed to create and eventually stopped trying. But I'd been working to change that mindset slowly for the past few months. Discovered modular, and bought myself a Behringer Crave as an entry point. But this video gave me the kick up the backside I needed to finally start making and sharing something! The joy it's bought me already is incredible. From the bottom of my heart, Thank You.
TO ALL D&D 3RD PARTY CREATORS: "CHAOS ISN'T A PIT. CHAOS IS A LADDER." Create excellent alternatives and the fans will support you. I have already decided to boycott the upcoming D&D movie and will use that money to buy 3rd party content. Good luck.
I came here for DnD advice, but I did not expect some of the best life advice I've ever heard. When something like this (I guess artsy!) resonates with you, it really makes you want to open up and share too, thus art inspiring art in a positive feedback loop. I won't because I don't want to be "that guy", but I really do appreciate the message.
Hey, Matt, I can't respond to your tweet because the app is really buggy right now and isn't allowing me to post. But yeah, this video wasn't anywhere on my recommendations on UA-cam's home page (your videos are usually there as soon as you release them)(not even on the Subscriptions section). About the video: I find that art, either experiencing or creating it, is one of the few things keeping me reasonably sane for a long time. I can't imagine life without it. I wouldn't want to exist without it.
You and Zee Bashew have been fuckin' me up with these videos (I'm just catching up, I know they were released a bit apart). Love these think thought videos though.
Thanks for sharing this. I've been struggling with creative career frustrations of late and this helps grapple with those and focus on the emotional and social fulfillment aspects of making art. Here's to a great year of being thoroughly human and making more art in 2023!
Tolkien said something to the effect that we participate in creation when we make our secondary worlds. And it's better than bingewatching (actually, I just added that). Thanks for an inspiring video.
I make stone tools. I make scrapers and arrowheads, axes and knives. I haft them with antler, bone or wood, I bind them with thread I twist myself from tree bark and sheath them in hide I tanned myself. It took a long time for me to even think of it as Art, till an artist encouraged me and told me, when I sold one, that I was now a professional artist. I make music, badly, but I never had trouble thinking of myself as a musician. Thank you for this video, because now I know that my Mercenary DM work is also Art. I used to say I was just a Craftsman, but as my Artist friend told me "The Art is the Craft".
LETS GO PLATS
A comment by Jeremy in Matt's channel..! Now that's interesting.
@@inconnu4876 RIGHT??? 2 of my all time favs
My world's have collided!!
I became homeless last week. Wrote the rest of my screenplay today. And now I'm living in a youth shelter and putting myself back together.
Thank you for the inspiration and love Matt. You dont know me. But you helped me! Love you brother.
"And surely the future shall be better for thee than the past."
I don't know you either, but keep it Henry. You got this. Only one way to go from the bottom.
How are you Henry? Do you have a more stable place to live?
I hope this post is outdated. But I wish you all the best none the less!
I've been making art recently, and it's exactly your attitude, articulated clearly here but mentioned many times in the past, that prompted me. We need good art now more than ever. Our ancestors gave us important discoveries and even more important questions, and it is our duty to continue that tradition. Come hellish heat or increasingly high water, we will leave a collective legacy.
As with many of your videos, Matt, you put fitting words to things I can only feel but not describe.
Thanks for helping me understand my own mind a little better!
Thank you Matt for helping me remember why I love creating.
Sitting in the dark and playing with your knob can be a good way of coping with existential dread.
"We make art, we do it to survive". This holds so much truth for me during the last couple of years, and I expect that it will continue to. Thank you Matt, this video came at the perfect time, this holiday season right before the new year. Hell and high water comes for me and many others at the start of 2023, but we will always have art.
Hell yeah brother. Good to see other people from the same planet I'm from, out there. Always feel that way watching your videos.
Love it! You always find a way to communicate deeply to the human soul Matt! I often feel like a minority in these channels (high fantasy/gaming) because I am a “religious” Christian. It can be difficult at times because just about every fantasy UA-camr mocks my faith at this point, I get why btw. There’s a lot of thing to be frustrated about. Art does find a way to unite us, as does this D&D hobby. I started DM’ing bc I watched Matt’s first RTG videos. For me, (I know everyone doesn’t see it this way) there’s no one more creative than God. And if indeed we were made in His image, we were made to create! To dive into narratives, music, paints, stories. I think it’s a reflection of how we were made. There’s always hope. And everyone/anyone can be an expression of that hope through creativity.
This is such a lovely and timely message for me right now. I’m glad you share your creations with us Matt.
Art helps us Survive, because Art helps us Thrive!
Thank you for sharing this. I have literally made art to survive before, and will again. It's nice to have that feeling so perfectly encapsulated in this piece.
It's funny that you and Zoe Bee made very similar pieces on this subject (from your own unique perspectives of course) within hours of eachother. They feel like campfires casting warm pools of light in the darkness where we can gather and shelter together.
I needed this.
Thank you for the video Matt! Saw your link to it on twitter, and it does feel like a John Green video, but still very you. Nice job!
Alright, that's it. You're my definitive internet dad. You don't know me at all, but... you must know me a little. Because, to some extent, you have to know yourself and, looking at the ways that you present yourself on here, you appear to be in the same classes I'm trying level up in but so many levels ahead of me that, even though those words might be simple matters of fact for you; for me, valuable and delicious wisdom seeps through every single word you say. I really love it here. Thanks, internet dad.
Thanks for this video. You put words to feelings I have. You are an inspiration.
Thank you so for this message I needed to hear it.
Thank you so much ! This is a great video on so many levels. Casually deep and very inspiring too. I do make art also, not as a living (as so many artists out there). The focus, the meaning, the beauty brought by art and its practice, it’s all in your video. I'll try to share it as much as I can, though I may need to translate it in french for some ofbmy friends and family. Is there a way I can submit french subtitles?
Thank you for the reminder. I return to my Daoyin training.
Thank you.
Time to pick up my guitar and boot up Reaper I guess lol, thanks/damn you for this!
I'm going to go paint some minis
Thanks for this, Matt, I really did need a reminder that I’m happiest when creating.
Same
Matt: *Speaking profound truths on art and the human condition*
Also Matt: "I prefer physical knobs"
My brain: "You're a physical knob"
Please send help.
If you makes you feel any better, this is literally what my brain did as well.
Nice to meet another "You're a (insert randomly heard word here)."
I relate to this so much. I worked for a veterinarian 10 years ago and he got me on the verbal tic/meme of introducing the phrase of "you're a (word just said)." It's as much a curse as self-awareness is.
That rack you see being assembled in the first 30 seconds isn't "real" it's just a bunch of modules I thought would be fun to film doing their thing.
soundcloud.com/matt-colville/tracks
I still looks cool!
Isn't that a form of art in and of itself?
@@novanIV you're goddamn right it is
I LOVE this preview of the MCDM Operator / Bard ! Thank you. Have a killer 2023 ahead 🥂
@@imissnewspapers All pretenders to State Azure’s Throne
Omg thank you for this, Matt. UK medic here, specialising in mental health. I recommend creativity every day. It's powerful to be able to say 'i wrote this song' or 'i cooked this meal' or even 'i knitted this sweater'. It empowers us in a world that we are otherwise powerless to affect. Know that you help others, thousands of miles away. Junior doctors here no longer have time for D&D any more, but your musings always bring me a smile
"We know, and we know we know."
Thats gonna stick with me as I go to bed. Thank you for articulating something I've been aware of, but couldn't describe until now. Its the awareness of my awareness that informs a lot of my disposition.
Also, I really enjoyed this video. I will definitely watch again tomorrow and continue working on my own art. Thank you for inspiring me to create. :)
Humans are too fragile and physical for how intellectually advanced they became. They were meant to be good enough to chase antelopes and fight off tigers; now they have tools to hunt down every single antelope and tiger in the world should there be a need to, but every action hurts more because you are aware of it. And you'll be aware of it for far longer, because instead of just surviving long enough to leave the next of kin and perishing, you'll live four times as long and have enough time to think about it.
...hopefully you will. Because when it comes to, a sharpened stick is as effective as it used to be.
"You make art, you do it to survive."
Im going to make that [thing] I have been putting off.
Let's do it. We're always concerned with what's urgent, and we put off what is important.
Whatever it is your project, let 2023 be the year it finally gets made.
I recently started drawing the comic book I've had in my heart for years. The script has been ready for a while. Now it's the time to make it come true.
"The world outside seems insane, unfixable, and deeply anti-human." What a vibe. This whole rant is just- Chefs kiss.
You have no idea the depth of the pitch dark place you pulled me out of because of this video. Seriously, this video is going into the playlist that I watch when I feel like the world would be better without me.
I spent the rest of this evening after watching this video reading my old poetry and writing new poetry and sending it to my sister. Thank you Matt. You never cease to inspire me.
This is the most beautiful video I've ever seen on UA-cam. Thank you, Matt.
The rise of AI-art is scaring a lot of artists. Finding this video feels like the discovery of a pond in the desert. Fresh water against the scary times.
We press on.
We make art.
Mr. Colville, your art helps to make a dark, scary world a little less dark, and a little less scary, for at least this one person.
Thank you for everything you do.
This video came in at just the right time for me. Thanks, Matt. You are a river to your people.
I'm usually here for D&D but man this was a good one.
It can be tough to remember in this day and age that it's important to do/create things for their own sake. Not because it's profitable or efficient or anything else.
Once again Matt coming in with an amazing video!
This is a very nice video, and if I am understanding it correctly a very clever way to talk about a thing while saying something else (which is by itself important and inspirational). I wish you and MCDM all the best in the coming months and we at least can look forward to seeing how the seeds will grow after the coming fire.
Hearing Matt Colville talk about Four Tet gave me world-void. As an electronic musician, I appreciate hearing Matt talk about what it means to him, and what it might mean to others.
My love for creating art saved my life. You were one of the first channels I found when I set out on my quest of being a DM. That was about 6 years ago. Cheers Matt and here's to many more years together🍺
Jeezus H Christ! This is good. This is sooo good. Thank you so much, Matt, this is something we ALL need to be reminded of.
You forgot to mention a very important form of Art that you make. These videos, all your videos, they are a form of art and one that matters deeply to many people. Videos like this are why I enjoy watching and listening to your content Matt, the introspection, the deep thought, it inspires me to make my own art. So thank you Mr Colville, and I hope you're doing okay
This is some seriously good coded language. Thanks for the message matt. Hope to see your RPG content soon.
I needed this this morning!.. been struggling with the world recently, but art is so important to me. So thank you Colville! Reminds me of reading the Birth of Tragedy and reading that Nietzsche said “[it is art] through which life is made both possible and worth living.” I needed to read that then and I needed to be reminded today
4:28 I know Matt wrote Priest and Thief when he felt creatively stifled and he has had plenty of creative stimulation in the past several years, but dammit I still want to see this book series continue! When I finished Priest for the first time several years ago, I was hooked. I'm just hoping that the series gets a conclusion and doesn't forever sit in limbo like the Game of Thrones novels.
During COVID, I got into learning simple programming for creating games. That was one of the most anxious and scary periods of my life, and I began to teach myself to make art.
Mostly it was just learning how to replicate existing games like Frogger or a crane game, but I would also noodle away at a couple of projects that deliberately felt lonely and hollow. One was a game about flying a spaceship into an infinite space, where you could just fly in any direction forever and never find anything except more stars. Another was a Yume Nikki-esque dreamscape about my own personal experiences and traumas, abstracted with small cubes.
That second one was especially important for me because I wanted to know that if somebody else picked up that game and played it, they would have no idea what was even happening. I just needed an outlet for my fears and anxieties in a way that only made sense to me.
This gives me hardcore John Green vlogbrothers video essay vibes, which is a huge compliment. I love this type of content, Matt. Keep it up!
I adore this kind of video Matt. I'm only twenty, but I was sixteen when I found your videos. I wanted to create art before then, but I realised that I wanted to _be_ and artist and to _lead a creative life_ as you say after listening to you. I've learned that lesson over and over again, and I've also learned what _kind_ of artist I want to be from many other people as well. But it really did start with finding you at the perfect time in my teenage upbringing, right when my inspiration was starting to rise, but my direction was lacking. Thank you, earnestly and deeply, thank you.
This feels like one of those videos I will be coming back to again and again over the years as a comforting reminder when I feel crushed as an artist. Your videos on D&D may have been what drew me in originally, but it's the ones like this that reach into my heart. Thanks Matt.
I hope you make your own TTRPG because I'm tired of WOTC's 5e. the Illrigger is the most fun I've had playing 5e. I'd rather play your content than give Hasbro a single dime.
I can't help but watch this in context with everything that's happening so I just wanted to say: you, Matt, have been an invaluable addition to mine and my players art over the years. I hope you are doing well and I wish the best for all this storm to pass safely.
This is Matt's response to OGL. I could be wrong but...look deeper. Listen.
First thing I thought as well
I'm not sure this was the best video to watch while waking up, but wow. Five minutes for complete graduate courses on Audio, Art, and Psycology along with an ad so cleanly included that you barely realize it's an ad. Excelent video Matt. I think I'm going to have to watch this again once I wake up. Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year, Matt and Everyone.
Wow, there are few videos, lectures, recordings out there that are so succinct and accurate. You were able to take a lot of thoughts and concepts I've had at different points in my life and pool them together so harmoniously, and it's exactly what I needed at this point in time. From the bottom of my heart, this random guy on the internet just wants to say thank you. I can think more clearly on some topics that have been bothering me, and that's huge.
"I refuse to say consuming it"
Oh god thanks for saying that, I feel less like a grumpy weirdo-- because for the longest time the modern parlance "consuming media" has driven me insane. It actually makes me feel gross to say
Thank you, this helped a lot.
This is my favorite video you've ever made. So fucking powerful, man. You've given me clarity on things that would take to long to explain here but thank you. I'll see you on stream.
Hey Matt, just saying that you've been a tremendous inspiration for how I run my games, and my philosophy on running games. You've helped me a lot during my years of trouble. Thanks for that.
I'm always impressed when Matt is able to plainly articulate thoughts I've had for decades, but have never been able to put into words. "Cursed by consciousness" is a hell of a phrase to sum up some of the worse aspects of anxiety.
I may be wrong but I believe this is Matt's answer to the death of the OGL and Hasbro/WOTC (AKA the NATC's). When the ash settles Matt and you need investors for you to buy the shell of WOTC when HASBRO has to spin it off b/c they ran it into the ground. We'll crowd source it man. Love the Black Sabbath albums :)
I kinda skipped this video when it dropped. Not because I wasn't interested in it or anything I just wasn't in the headspace for it. I still wasn't when I listened to it now I was kind of having a weird episode. But this sort of philosophical existential kind of dialogue helped ground me. I usually just listen to the Running the Game videos to prepare myself for DnD, and even in this case it helped. So thanks for this Matt. It was just nice.
the River is flowing again!
noodling on my collection of guitars, amps, and synths has definitely given me countless hours of reprieve from existential dread.
This resonates so much different now.
What can I say... We will never stop creating.
This helped me a lot.
I'm sure it's helped a lot of people, this is hardly an original comment on a video like this, but I just wanted to thank you. This helped me.
We're all afflicted with a heinous curse
Metacognition, now what could be worse?
with all the buttons and wires, how can you create anything that isn't completely random? can you replicate your art?
"I refuse to say consuming it" FUCK YES.
Now that is some Sage Advice. Thank you, Matt.
Wow Matt. Thanks, This really means something to me.
This really inspired me, as a sound artist, as a dm, as a person. Thank you.
Matt Colville, Knobwiggler Extraordinaire
Beautiful video!! This is how I feel about drawing and painting with physical implements!! I also appreciate avoiding the word “consume” in favor of “experience”. That’s some good John Dewey stuff there!
"We have art in order not to die of the truth."
Friedrich Nietzsche
This feels like a John Green video. Great stuff!
I saw this video on release... and every week or so... i come back and listen again.
It's wild how you can change someone's life in just 5 minutes.
Thank you, Matt.
Same. this video is fully responsible for me getting up & finally making art this year
I've set myself a couple of challenges for the upcoming year:
1- Make one room for a dungeon a day, with the goal of having a nice 12 level, 365 (is 2023 a leap year?) room mega dungeon by next december.
2- Read a book a month. It's been a good year or two since I actually sat down & really read a book. Priest is on the list for some time in.. spring? Summer? One of those. I remember finding it moving when I first read it, & I can't wait to get back to it.
“Survival is insufficient”
- Station 11, quoting Star Trek: Voyager.
My favourite novel for exactly that reason
You are a beautiful inspiration on my life Matt. Thank you so much for existing and being a constant stream of interesting concepts and good vibes.
It's strange how we get meaning from things in our life when we need it most. I just had my first child a month ago and I'm... struggling, to say the least. I can't pinpoint any one thing you said in this video that helped me with this time in my life, but it's in there somewhere. Thank you for what you do and your dedication to the people that look up to you.
Art for arts sake. Matt for Matt's sake. Amen.
I typically don't click on your non-D&D videos unless I'm super interested in the topic but I'm so happy I decided to click on this one. Definitely a well worded and much appreciated message
Serious question, where does the word Dooblydoo come from?
I got it from the Vlogbrothers. No idea where they got it.
This. Just, this. Thank you. ❤️
Stay strong Matt, you're not alone.
You sound very ominous, Matt, and I hope that you are OK. What you do matters. You give a lot of inspiration to people.
I recently got back into creating my webcomics a few months ago, after a year-long creative slump brought on by depression; it was going to ComicCon and experiencing the abundance of creative energy that was the last step I needed to pull myself out. Now that I'm creating again, I've been feeling so much better about myself and my life as a whole.
This was mesmerizing.
I had to spent so much on my 9-5 lately, and I don't even know how much I missed creating stuff. Be it stupid UA-cam videos that people dislike, ugly paintings and scuffed miniatures, or running crappy DnD games - it's still nice to express yourself and be able to say "This might not be good, but I enjoyed making it and I want to share it.". I'll keep this video in my "Motivation" playlist and come back to it every now and then. :)
Your streams are one of the reasons I got into modular, and it kinda changed my life after other kinds of art art became difficult due to life stuff. Art is so important. So glad you made this.
well spoken as always. thank you so much for this matt
Very beautifully said Matt!
I picked up pencil drawing during the pandemic and I has become an opportunity to keep myself safe and zen for a few hours on a shite day.
i haven't been watching the vods of the streams for about half a year now i reckon, and this felt like a very warm blanket draped around me. you help a lot, matt. thank you so much.
As someone working myself out of a depression, this is infinitely comforting to hear. Thank you Matt.
Thank you, Mr. Colville. Art is the only thing that keeps me on the material plane, and what you do is part of that art. Thank you for this video. Thank you for everything.
This video has changed my life, and I cannot express my thanks for that enough.
I had no idea you were into modular! But that got me hooked into the video, and I had no clue how much I needed to hear the messages here. I've spent most of my life believing others and (worse) myself that I'm not creative or "arty" in any way. I'd freeze when pressed to create and eventually stopped trying.
But I'd been working to change that mindset slowly for the past few months. Discovered modular, and bought myself a Behringer Crave as an entry point. But this video gave me the kick up the backside I needed to finally start making and sharing something! The joy it's bought me already is incredible.
From the bottom of my heart, Thank You.
TO ALL D&D 3RD PARTY CREATORS: "CHAOS ISN'T A PIT. CHAOS IS A LADDER." Create excellent alternatives and the fans will support you. I have already decided to boycott the upcoming D&D movie and will use that money to buy 3rd party content. Good luck.
I came here for DnD advice, but I did not expect some of the best life advice I've ever heard. When something like this (I guess artsy!) resonates with you, it really makes you want to open up and share too, thus art inspiring art in a positive feedback loop. I won't because I don't want to be "that guy", but I really do appreciate the message.
Hey, Matt, I can't respond to your tweet because the app is really buggy right now and isn't allowing me to post. But yeah, this video wasn't anywhere on my recommendations on UA-cam's home page (your videos are usually there as soon as you release them)(not even on the Subscriptions section).
About the video: I find that art, either experiencing or creating it, is one of the few things keeping me reasonably sane for a long time. I can't imagine life without it. I wouldn't want to exist without it.
You and Zee Bashew have been fuckin' me up with these videos (I'm just catching up, I know they were released a bit apart). Love these think thought videos though.
Casually drops my favorite video of 2022 right at the end...
Thanks Matt
Thanks for sharing this. I've been struggling with creative career frustrations of late and this helps grapple with those and focus on the emotional and social fulfillment aspects of making art. Here's to a great year of being thoroughly human and making more art in 2023!
Tolkien said something to the effect that we participate in creation when we make our secondary worlds. And it's better than bingewatching (actually, I just added that). Thanks for an inspiring video.
I'm a professional composer and conductor, and I feel THIS is the manifesto of my existence!
thank you sir and cheers
I make stone tools. I make scrapers and arrowheads, axes and knives. I haft them with antler, bone or wood, I bind them with thread I twist myself from tree bark and sheath them in hide I tanned myself. It took a long time for me to even think of it as Art, till an artist encouraged me and told me, when I sold one, that I was now a professional artist. I make music, badly, but I never had trouble thinking of myself as a musician. Thank you for this video, because now I know that my Mercenary DM work is also Art. I used to say I was just a Craftsman, but as my Artist friend told me "The Art is the Craft".