Back To Back Pickup Video Blogs - Thriftdweller

Lester and I are back for summer Thriftdweller. We took a break from the video blogs but came back with 2 pickup videos back to back! Check it out! =D

MetroCity Pickups 10

Over a month worth of pickups in over 15 action packed minutes! Some great retro video game finds!

MetroCity Pickups 11

A small but dope video of some great TD finds and I unveil a new video game shelf! =D

A Thriftdweller Classic Video Pick

For those who don't know, I have a video blog called "Thriftdweller" with by best friend Lester. One of the perks of making a journal or video blog is that you can look back at how silly we were at our younger age. Granted it was only 2 years ago, I still invite you to check out some of my personal favourite videos! 

Da Vlog - Sailor Moon
Lester (co-blogger/best friend) and I used to have a video blog series called "Da Vlog" in season 2 of Thriftdweller. In this episode I end up singing Sailor Moon for some reason during our regular thrift store hunting! Check it out!

This Week's Pick Up Video

On this week's pickup video from my video blog Thriftdweller, we review all the finds of the week guest starring 64BitMatthew (a fellow YouTube blogger) and Ian Beardman from Thriftdweller! Check it out!

Thriftdweller Season 3 Pickup Name

Thriftdweller is Nate's video blog with his best friend Lester! (we mostly talk about video games)
Yesterday I posted how i over come mental blocks. The reason I did was because I am having trouble coming up with a title for our Thriftdweller Season 3 pickup videos! It's a small thing, I know, but like I always recommend to my YouTube channel bloggers, give your videos your own flavour! Be unique and stand our, so just be yourself (since there's only one of you in the world, get it?)

Here's what I've come up with so far!

Nate is Brainstorm-ing
-Be You! Goodnight!

Mental Block and SCAT

I've grown up very "right brained", somewhat of an abstract mind and very obsessive too. I like being creative, so when I get stuck, you can imagine how difficult it would be for me to move on to anything else until I over come a mental block. 

One tool I've learned to do is "scat sing" mentally. All you sickos who think what I think you're thinking, gross! But for the good minded, scat sining is a jazz inspired form of expression, it's wordless. You make sounds to music, let your soul speak! Here's a clip from Chapelle Show that's a good example. 

Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler use to "scat" when coming up with songs, that's how "Dude looks like a lady" came from! I guess this is my way of saying "brainstorm"! There are no wrong answer on brainstorming! Lester and I throw ideas back and fourth all the time! This has proven to be a valuable tool!

-Nate is watching RAW IS WAR

"come on be my baby tonight!"

The Retro Video Game YouTube Community

I really started my "online" persona on YouTube as "Thriftdweller Nate". I made videos for a loose community of Retro Video Game Collectors. Now a days there's probably thousands of retro video game channels when back there I bet there was only a few hundred it feels like.

Not only did I get to interact with other like minded people, I've actually met up with a few (in real life), like 64BitMatthew, or "Matt" in real life. I totally found him randomly and noticed he had a locally relevant shirt! So I messaged him and some how we met up in Winnipeg. Since then we've had many game hunting days in Winnipeg, I've visited his town and I've even had the pleasure of hosting his family at my place for dinner.

This might be an extension to my "game hunting - more than games" post a few days ago, but it's cool to see how this community has grown outside of YouTube to Facebook, Blogs (like this one) and even twitter. I enjoy interacting with these peeps! Who knew there was so many retro game collectors? Check out Matt's latest PICKUP video where he mentions out latest game hunting trip.

"I asked my old boss once, what the secret to success was? "Network" he said" -Nate

-Nate is gonna sleep... ZZZ

The Art of the Pick Up Video

Thriftdweller is my YouTube video blog series with my best friend Lester!

What's a pickup video?

Pick Up Video - In the YouTube retro video game community, a pick up video is a form of a video blog where people show what games they recently acquired, usually with stories. It was one of the earliest formats for video bloggers we noticed when we started YouTube. I think it's an integral part of the community, we get to share each other's enjoyment and maybe pick up some "thriftdwelling" tips.

For my part of Season 3, I still want to do Pick-Up videos for video games. Since Lester and I always have to do something to make it "our style" I've outlined some things we'll be trailing for Season 3 Pick Up videos. Hopefully you might learn something you can use in your own videos.

Nate's Goals For Season 3 Thriftdweller

Thriftdweller is Nate's video blog with his best friend Lester

The Countdown to Season 3 is here! 

Nate's Thriftdweller Season 3 Goals (from Nate)
Nate's personal goals that I think will make us broadcast our message more clearly...

Still Kickin' Ass

Well, season 3 for Thriftdweller is almost here and my partner Lester made a sweet poster!

The goal is always to be part of the community and start to look at making some other interesting content. I think we always tried to put our spin on everything we did. Someone once told me our video blog stood out because there was two of us, we have some sort of chemistry (heck, we've been friends forever seems like) and we're asian?!?!

Regardless - SEASON 3 is coming - I think we're going to be a bit more honest on camera, little more "dick"ish, as that's how we are in real life sometimes. On camera we tend to be "nicer" not that we aren't nice, but if we get upset, maybe we'll just leave it in rather than edit it out? 

Goodmorning america!

-Nate

My Current Game Collecting Status

I've been buying retro video games now for almost a decade, scouring streets, thrift stores and garage sales to find all my childhood classics as well as hidden gems. I've come to a point where I've met a lot of my goals and  I had to reflect to truly refocus, since my energy has been divided on so many other projects. Thank goodness for this blog, I feel, even though I might just be writing for myself, I can visually take a picture of everything I'm doing online.

Click here for more of "the room of doom!"

Currently I've slowed down physically buying video games.  I've got every game that ever meant anything too me (and I do plan on going further in depth with my collection reflections) and I have a game room that's pretty much done (although, I can't ever seem to have the final arrangement in the room) Still...

I always have to be doing something, so I've found that my other projects have taken what would have been video game buying and collecting time.

Projects
1) Thriftdweller - My video game blog on Youtube. We're currently on break and that's probably the reason why I've slowed down buying. Season 3 is coming soon however! Can't wait! So many ideas!

2) My MAME Arcade - A computer with every game I ever wanted housed in an arcade cabinet. The project is almost done, but the hard work is over. The cabinet is awesome and the computer is set up great. Just waiting for the roms to be downloaded and it's done (more on this later too!)

3) Retro Gamers Winnipeg (RGCW)- my video game convention group for winnipeg (my city). I started it a month ago and it's just blown up with everything I'm doing. Seems a lot of my time gets taken up in it. I've worked on delegating tasks to others and I find that I am having more time to do stuff other than RGCW! We're inching closer to our end goal, a retro video game convention! Can't wait!

4) Team Retro Gamers Canada - A little known side project where I want to collaborate with some other Canadian Youtubers and make somewhat of a central video game hub for canadian retro video game video bloggers. This is early but is launching soon! I might change the name, undecided!

Thriftdweller Season 3 and RGCW Updates

THRIFTDWELLER NEWS
Thriftdweller is a video blog series I created with my best friend Lester. We mostly talk about Retro Video Games.
Well, Lester and I (we form "Thriftdweller" on YouTube) had a chat today quickly about the state of our channel and how much we hate Google+. It was more or less about what we want to do and where we want to go. At the end, we really didn't come up with anything but "we're going to do a Christmas episode" then announce "Thriftdweller Season 3 for January 2014, Still Keeping Physical Media Alive, Still Kickin' Ass!

Season 3 Is Almost Here!

Some "Missing Files" Thriftdweller tapes from Season 2 we still need to "burn off" as a count down to season 3.

RGCW NEWS
RGCW is short for Retro Gamers Convention Winnipeg, I created an online group of Winnipeg retro video game fans planning to host an event for charity in April 2014
Tomorrow I have to talk to Ed, my event planning partner for Retro Gamers Convention Winnipeg (RGCW) about the state of that project! I also have to update him we have a new "communications team" in my wife and our own "Kyle" (nickname to come) who can handle all the media outlet stuff. Kyle, just get me on Breakfast Television to talk about our event (personal goal) =D !

Nate and Ed (aka-24BigGamer) at the latest RGCW Planning
Committee Meeting. He keeps me level

Nate is out! 

Goodnight!