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0:12
Life was good. I just touched
0:20
so many years.
0:24
I can't remember how it feels.
0:30
I reach for me, but I'm not there. It's
0:34
so lonely, but who cares? It's fine.
0:37
It's okay.
0:40
I'll die in my head.
0:49
Oh, those brakes barely squeakaked for a
0:51
depth subs to the sound. My brakes
0:53
squeak way louder than that when pulling
0:55
out of the garage after it rained. Heck,
0:57
my cat squeaks louder than that.
1:11
Why does everyone love New York? Why
1:13
does nobody show any love for any other
1:15
place that they live in or enjoy being a
1:17
tourist of? I've been to New York once
1:20
before and I was not exactly impressed
1:22
by it. Then again, I'm not entirely
1:24
impressed by the state I live in either.
1:30
I am impressed by this view, though. I
1:33
don't get out all that much these days,
1:34
but when I was younger, I used to go on
1:36
vacations with my parents all the time.
1:38
But I kind of wish I was more into the
1:39
beauty and nature back then. My friend
1:41
used to take pictures of the sky, and
1:43
they'd always be so pretty. It's like if
1:45
you try to paint the sky, you can almost
1:47
never get it wrong with the cloud
1:48
formations and such because they can be
1:50
so intricate and in depth or barely
1:53
there and the sky itself can hold so
1:55
many colors to it if you take the moment
1:57
to just stare at it during different
1:58
times of the day. I don't know, a bit of
2:00
a tangent here. I just wish more people
2:03
appreciate the beauty of nature more
2:04
often than in video games or
2:06
photographs, including myself.
2:14
Wow.
2:21
Okay, fine. I'll go get my camera. Just
2:24
Just keep being respplendant till I get
2:27
back.
2:30
How long was I gone on this trip? 3
2:33
days. Somehow it still feels good to
2:36
come home to Vermont.
2:38
So, she took a vacation for Vermont for
2:40
3 days, and now she's on her way back.
2:47
My camera is underneath all this. Car
2:50
packing for dummies. Whatever you need
2:53
most goes to the back.
2:56
>> This is almost a hidden object scene
2:58
right here at Max. I'm not the tidiest
3:00
person ever, but I highly doubt that I
3:02
could leave my trunk space looking like
3:03
this if I were to go on vacation. I'm
3:06
OCD in specific circumstances.
3:08
At work, people would always roll their
3:10
eyes at me when I'm rearranging
3:11
cardboard in one of the carts we place
3:13
it in. But if you just throw crap in,
3:15
you use up more room than you could have
3:17
if you tidied it all up. It makes sense.
3:20
Okay, we're not making it look pretty
3:22
just to make trash look pretty. But it
3:24
doesn't hurt that it's easier to look
3:25
at. And Max's trunk is not an easy thing
3:28
to look at. Why the heck does she even
3:30
have donuts stashed back here? The box
3:32
isn't even hardly shut. Hello. One sharp
3:34
turn on a winding road that we were on
3:36
would have them spilling out of the box
3:37
tipped.
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>> This weekend was the height of my
3:42
professional success and I survived it
3:46
on donuts and coffee.
3:49
>> Where'd she put the donut box? On the
3:51
ground.
3:57
>> I always tell my students that a key to
3:59
being an artist is a daily journal
4:02
practice.
4:03
Sometimes I even follow it myself.
4:07
After last year, it was time to start
4:10
fresh with a new journal. I love the
4:13
cover of this journal. It looks pretty
4:14
and something I would definitely buy and
4:16
never really use.
4:20
I've always enjoyed looking through
4:21
Max's journal just because she's a very
4:23
artsy person and I like looking at the
4:25
sketches she likes to draw on the pages.
4:27
Plus, it's easier to look through than
4:29
the text. But for now, there are four
4:31
pages to look through to see where we're
4:33
at in Max's life. You know what would
4:35
have been nice? If we could hear Max
4:37
read the journal entries herself in her
4:39
head voice. Just like a little audio for
4:41
each page to play. Instead, you get to
4:43
listen to my voice.
4:45
Do you know where else you get to listen
4:47
to my voice? That's right, my Patreon.
4:51
From me doing live commentary on games
4:53
to the sultry sound of someone voicing
4:55
lines of a game for the listening
4:56
adults. We've got free tiers ranging all
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the way up to tiers where you can write
5:00
your own story for me to read to you
5:02
instead of these journal entries Max is
5:04
giving us. I'm always intimidated when
5:07
I'm starting a new journal. It feels
5:09
like I'm supposed to be making some sort
5:10
of grand statement, especially since I
5:12
haven't had much to say since the storm
5:14
that changed everything. Trademark last
5:16
year.
5:18
She's gone a whole year without writing
5:20
anything in a journal. That's a long dry
5:23
spell,
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especially for her. Well, that's
5:27
somewhere to start. Last year, it felt
5:29
like everything was falling apart when
5:31
my friend Sophie died. And then I found
5:33
a world where Sophie wasn't dead and a
5:35
new ability jumped between realities.
5:37
And then everything really did fall
5:39
apart until Sophie and I managed to put
5:41
it back together.
5:43
Did you, though? Chloe texted me after
5:45
the storm. I wanted to write her back so
5:47
many times, but I just couldn't find the
5:49
words. I still can't. I think this
5:52
journal is my attempt to find them.
5:54
Maybe when I do, I'll be able to write
5:55
her back. And who knows?
5:58
In some ways, there's very little to
6:00
report. Same place, same house, same
6:03
life. After so many years of endlessly
6:05
moving around, one adventure to the
6:07
next, I've suddenly found myself, I
6:09
don't know, cocooned.
6:11
But in other ways, I've been going
6:12
through a bit of a metamorphosis.
6:15
When Yasm mean asked me to teach
6:16
full-time, I was shocked. I thought she
6:19
was joking. But after attending a few of
6:21
my workshops, she was confident I could
6:22
do it. And here's the second shock. It
6:26
looks like she was right. I love
6:28
teaching. I care about my students and
6:30
being the kind of teacher who nurtures
6:31
them in a way mine never did. To put it
6:34
mildly. Maybe that's enough. For now, it
6:37
definitely is. But for how long?
6:40
It's not that I feel stuck exactly, but
6:43
is this what I've been building towards
6:45
all this time? Am I ready to commit to
6:47
this place? To this version of me? Maybe
6:50
that's why I said yes when my agent
6:52
Hazel, holy crap, I have an agent now,
6:55
suggested I spend the weekend in New
6:56
York. Maybe I can get my on the road
6:59
fixed while still putting down some
7:00
roots. But then she sent me some
7:02
interview questions in advance. And
7:06
where do you get your inspiration from?
7:08
Is it too weird to say that I'm inspired
7:10
by death? Not inspired exactly. Driven
7:13
by death. Defined by death. What the
7:16
hell would someone say to that? Sorry
7:18
about your weird life. Stop crying on my
7:20
notes. Actually, this is a reporter. So,
7:23
the next question would be, then why is
7:25
your work so much less depressing
7:27
lately? No urban landscapes, no rusted
7:30
ribbar. You're even getting into
7:31
portraiture.
7:33
And yeah, I guess Kadan has been good
7:36
for me. It feels alive in a way that
7:38
doesn't hurt anymore. I'd already broken
7:40
into every derelict building and bowling
7:42
alley last year, so this year I just
7:44
kind of learned how to live with the
7:46
living again. See, this is why I don't
7:50
do interviews.
7:56
>> And here's the text screen. I've always
7:59
hated reading through the phone messages
8:00
in a Life is Strange game or a lot of
8:03
other games. It's not that they're
8:05
difficult to navigate through or
8:06
anything like that, but when you first
8:07
enter the phone, you've got a ton of
8:09
messages already. And then sometimes
8:11
people are continuously texting you
8:13
still, and it's like gh, it's so much.
8:17
And I get that it's more realistic this
8:18
way. You definitely aren't going to have
8:20
messages already on your phone and
8:21
looking into them and seeing who else is
8:23
texting you. But man, it can be
8:25
exhausting just looking through them all
8:27
in the game. In saying that, I won't be
8:30
reading the messages out loud. I know
8:32
you're happy about that. Don't pretend
8:34
you're not. I'm happy about that.
8:38
I never responded to this. I should
8:42
once I somehow figure out what to say.
9:08
The main objective screen is pretty
9:10
decent to look at. You've got Max's
9:12
screen saver on her phone on the left
9:13
portraying her love for taking pictures
9:15
of abandoned ruined things. And then
9:17
there is just the objective simplistic.
9:24
That does not look like a Max hat. It
9:28
looks like an older lady hat. What would
9:30
Chloe even say to her if she saw Max
9:31
wearing that?
9:35
My agent, Hazel, said I need to look
9:37
more like an artist, so I bought this
9:40
hat. I think I'll stick to looking like
9:44
Max.
9:54
Some of my students take my class so
9:56
seriously, it's intimidating.
10:02
Loretta is smart enough to halfass her
10:04
assignments and get away with it.
10:07
>> I wish we could have seen the images
10:09
they took with these notes. Also, does
10:11
Loretta even know what she's talking
10:12
about?
10:26
My manager, Hazel, is always looking out
10:29
for me.
10:33
And sometimes I want to kill her.
10:37
>> Dude, I love that picture of Moses. He's
10:39
about to go full on werewolf.
10:51
My most trusted companion.
10:58
one gallery showing, three magazine
11:00
meetings, and one commission proposal.
11:03
So, of course, I packed 25 different
11:05
outfits.
11:06
>> None of them that we can even put on in
11:08
this playthrough.
11:11
>> The further my life takes me, the more I
11:14
find myself coming back to this trusty
11:17
old friend.
11:19
Nothing like a satisfying click, a
11:22
soothing were, and a toasty photo
11:25
blossoming into view.
11:41
the selfie I took just before this trip.
11:44
I think I knew I'd want to hold on to
11:46
this moment.
11:49
>> Am I the only one thinking that's a
11:51
terrible looking selfie? She has her
11:53
hand blurred in the pick where she's
11:55
holding the camera and it's in the
11:56
picture. I would think someone who's as
11:58
invested in photography as her would
12:00
admire a picture like this. The
12:02
background is an amazing view and I like
12:04
how she's standing in the angle of the
12:05
picture, but the hand
12:27
Time for your closeup.
12:40
And now we get to take our own picture.
12:42
I tried to move the camera high enough
12:44
to get the guardrail mostly out of the
12:45
picture. And I kind of like how it came
12:47
out.
13:52
Something horrible is happening on
13:53
campus. I've got to get back now.
13:57
I suppose it's a good thing we're
13:58
already on our way back.