Hey everybody JSquared Jon Jeremy here, back with another
question and answer session. We've got several questions
this time around, so if you've got a question of your own make
sure to post in the comments below. I do have a business
trip I'm going on next week. So I'm I plan on a special question
and answer episode for next week, but we'll collect all those
questions from you guys in we'll answer them
in future episodes as well so let's go and get started here
our first question comes from No NoGoBoy13, he's actually
got a two part of question here. They don't really coincide with
each other so we'll take them one at a time. First question is,
what did you study in college and why? So the funny enough
really especially, somebody, who works at a technology company, I
studied political science. When I was in college and I
wanted to go into politics and it just happened to be that
I hate it.
I absolutely did not like that path for me, after I had
started to go to school for it and it was weird for me
personally because I have,
I guess an optimistic outlook on life and on you know what
we should be as as a people, as a nation, as a race
altogether as humanity as a
species and politics can be a very grimy business and I saw
the underbelly of that and I didn't like it. I didn't like it
at all, so it was really weird for me and in fact, for the next
couple of years afterward, I was
kind of lost. Because I didn't really know what to do with myself. Now that
that I had this path set for me, had been thinking about
it for several years. So now come to find out that I don't
like it at all, and what to do. So luckily, after after a
couple of years I managed to find a place that I enjoy
working at and of course what I do here on YouTube I mean if I didn't have
this outlet here I really don't know who I would be, this is such
a huge part of my life. Nowadays, I wish I had went to
school for I guess I still can go to school for things like.
Social media and communications as a whole, videography because,
you know, I'm stretching the limits right now as it is
when it comes to what I can do with the green screen behind me
and the video camera in front of me, so this talking
head thing is like bare bones
stuff really. So maybe in the future you know, I'll take some classes on
how to upgrade my own skills when it comes to these sort
of recordings, but that's in the future. But I appreciate the
question. His second question is really I guess out of left field
one. What is your favorite cookie?
Well, personally my favorite cookie either has to be
chocolate chip cookie, warmed up just enough so that it doesn't
crumble your hand but that the gooey, that the chocolate inside
becomes gooey and you can kind of feel it stick to the inside your
mouth a little bit. That's I'm
starting to salviate thinking of it right now, that is a
fantastic cookie. Another cookie I like, funnily enough, is oatmeal. I
love. I can have oatmeal cookies all day everyday no
problem at all. Cinnamon cookies, too, same thing. I don't really know why.
And truthfully I'm not that much of a cookie eater but those would
be like my top 3 go tos of cookies, so there, you go. That
answers your question NoNo. Not really sure why you wanted to
know that in particular, but there you go. Our next question
again another two-part question
comes from Jacob Mackey and his first question is,
Some YouTubers have to go through several drafts of what
they want to say before they record do you have that problem.
No Jacob. I probably have the opposite problem in that I don't
think before I start talking, like right now. I'm reading
these questions. There is no script. I'm not really. It's
basically stream of conscious answering here.
I'm reading the questions then I'm asking them directly so
I kind of have the opposite problem here. I probably should
have like a teleprompter somewhere where I can write down
a couple of notes. I probably wouldn't want to go like on a
full script, but a couple notes here and there will probably be
nice. There are a few exceptions to that, though I recall.
When I do like big intros to a video game. I do like to have
something prepared for. Case and Point would be Valkyria
Chronicles. I loved recording that opening for Valkyria
Chronicles because I was listening to the music as I was
doing it and if you never seen the
Valkyria Chronicles videos, I highly recommend them. I highly
recommend the series as a whole. The Games, one day we will play
Valkyria Chronicles 4. But Valkyria Chronicles one is a
fantastic game and its soundtrack is phenomenal so I
was listening to that, while I was writing up my intro
and then I would speak it while again listening to that to
that soundtrack. So it would kind of go with the flow there.
That's in a case where I would want to have something written,
but otherwise 95% of what I do when I'm recording, I'm recording
it stream of consciousness style. So no, I don't have that problem Jacob and I
wouldn't really call it a problem per say. You know,
there are several instances where it is good to have a
script in place, especially where you want to make sure you
get your point across and you don't forget about them.
In a very short video like I'm thinking like ten-fifteen minutes.
You want to make sure that you're getting the maximum use
out of those, 10-15 minutes now in our case here, we kind of go
longer, so we can afford a break here and there, but when you're
running against the clock. It's kind of important to make sure
you get your point across in a way that entices the viewer to
come back for more. His, Jacob second question is would you love to do
a full multiplayer campaign of CK2 with Aulddragon, and other
YouTubers? So we've done a couple of campaign series with Aulddragon.
I don't think we... Don't think we finished any of them. I recall two off the
top of my head, we did one where we use the after the end mod and
we did one where we're playing as Zunist, which is pretty fun
praise the sun. We also did one way back at the very beginning
of when we played Crusader Kings
2 with GrimithR [Currently just Grimith]. So we have done multiplayer campaigns. The
biggest problem that I have with them, it's not it's not
having to do with any of the other YouTubers. It has to do
with myself. I have a very limited schedule and my time is
very restricted when it comes to being able to collaborate with
other YouTubers, that's because I have a full time job along
with doing this, that's not to say that I wouldn't want to do a
multiplayer campaign, But honestly at this point, I would
have to like specifically
designate time that I would be available and the YouTuber that
I'd be collaborating with would also have to be available and
would probably have to make their schedule work with mine
rather than I work with it there's and that's, you know,
there has to be some give and take their and what I found is
that all I can do really is
take in this sort of scenario. So if there we came to a point where we could do a
multiplayer campaign without having to worry about a
schedule absolutely but
I would probably have to not be working, while doing it so.
Yes, I would love to probably a bit hard to make that happen Jacob,
probably a little bit hard. Sorry about that. Our
next question comes from SpaceMan... Sorry not spaceman, ScarfaceMan77
and he writes, What gives you the most
entertainment when it comes to CK2 and what has been
the most pleasant surprise?
That's an interesting question, Scarface, what gives me the most
entertainment? What gives me the most entertaining about a
game like Crusader Kings two is that I theoretically don't have
to do anything
and the game will tell a story by itself, and I've said this a
couple times in these questions, in these Q&A sessions and we
even in my Vlogs. Crusader Kings 2 has the unique ability to be
able to tell a story without direct player intervention, if
you were to simply start it at
769 and stopped it at 1453, I guarantee you no two campaigns
would be the exact same. No two campaigns would be the exact same
and that's The Mark, what I feel, of a great game. That gives me
the most entertainment. One day we may just say, "Hey let's do
that and I would literally commentate
over the changing of time in that map without having to play
it, with just just watching it happen. I find that to be a
really unique thing. A really unique experience to be able to
do. There are a couple of other games that could possibly do
that. But Crusader Kings two, to me, is the stand out when it comes
to that, so maybe one day. We'll make it happen. I don't know,
but that that's what gives me the most Entertainment, is that
I can just look away from a section of the map and then go
back to it, you know twenty ingame years later and then oh my god
everything has changed. I also love the fact that if you
dive deeper, besides just map changes, If you dive deeper into
the families themselves. You can pinpoint what happened with that
family. What's happened? What's going on. Case and point,
There's a point in our Crusader Kings two, our current Crusader
Kings 2 series where the King of Lombardy has been excommunicated
from... By the pope and he is in a war with Aragon over in
Spain. Aragon wins that war, so this King is then deposed and his son
comes to power. Well you would think, OK, son moves on. No that
King has a vassal so loyal that the vassal proceeds to murder
their child, a few months after in game and then because the child is killed
his heir is the father again, so king I think is named King
Adelges The First comes back to power after his son King Adelges
The Second is murdered because of that Count's loyalty. Because of that lord's
loyalty and the fact that the game can tell that story in
such a way that we as the player without even needing to
be a part of that experience and able to figure out what's going
on. That's that's awesome. That gives me the entertainment
value. That's one of the reasons why I have a thousand plus
hours of playing that game and I don't intend on stopping anytime
soon, unless there's Crusader Kings Three coming around paradox. Make it
happen. I'll be happy to test it as well. And then the second
half of your question, which is what has been the most pleasant
surprise, probably is that.
The fact that seven years later, seven years later this game came out in
2012, seven years later I am still playing this game. That is the
most pleasant surprise. If you equate game time to dollars
spent. It's no contest I have gotten my moneys worth, and then
some. You look at Crusader Kings 2 today and you know, there is
there are comments about how paradox does its whole how it
does monetization instead of it being like microtransactions
within a game. Instead
it's it's by purchasing downloadable content and
expansion packs post game launch, so you have to decide if you're
OK with... If you're not OK with microtransactions you have to be
OK with expansion packs and
downloadable content. Even with all that said, I think I
think the game runs if you were to buy the game right now
at full price and with all downloadable content. I think
it runs somewhere around 300 bucks. I think don't quote me
on that. I didn't check it before I said it so if it's
higher, my apologies.
So if you look at the game and then you look at all the downloadable
content Three Hundred-Four Hundred dollars but then you look at the game time that is
spent in that game in my case, a thousand hours plus. In other
peoples cases at least thirty-forty-fifty-sixty
a hundred-two hundred hours, if you invested that much money into the game
you're probably a fan of that game at that point, so you're
enjoying your experience, well if you're enjoying your experience
then it's a pleasant surprise that you've gotten your money's
worth. It happens so rarely in this day and age of
video gaming I can name plenty of games where I have not gotten
my moneys worth, and I have made terrible terrible mistakes. I
have games. Truthfully, I have games that I've spent lifetimes...
Champions online. And no no fault against the developers,
which is cryptic studios. No fault of them. I purchased a
lifetime subscription to champions online back when the
game first launched, it launched back in 2009. It's now 2019, and
I have never played
past the tutorial of that game.
And I spend the I think the lifetime subscription at that
time was like 300 bucks.
So I've spent three hundred dollars on a game that I've not played so that's an
unpleasant surprise, but it's a reality for me. Meanwhile,
with Crusader Kings two I've I've spent Three hundred-four hundred dollars whatever wasn't
gifted or given it to me by
paradox. I have spent that money in that game, and have gotten a
thousand hours plus. In that game, so that's the pleasant
surprise. And I hope to have more of those pleasant surprises
in the future. Hopefully, in this day and age you never know, you don't know.
But great question ScarfaceMan. Our next question comes from
Weks, not whelks Weks... Welks is Valkyria Chronicles again. I've
got... I've got Valkyria Chronicles on the brain and
Wek's question is, What is your
favorite alcoholic drink? If you don't touch the stuff, what
is your favorite non-alcoholic drink so I don't really drink
Weks every now and again occasionally I'll have whatever a
group is having. I'm a social drinker, I guess is what
you would say, and again very rarely to that effect, very,
very rarely. Most of the time I'll just stick with water,
honestly, coffee is probably my fave my favorite non alcoholic
drink. I love coffee. I grew up with the stuff in my household
you drank coffee every day, every morning there was a pot.
Being brewed by the time I woke up to get ready to go to school
like that was just that just happened that was that was there
and it's a part of me today for that matter and as far as like
the types of coffee go. It depends like you can have your
French press style, you can have your drip brew.
There are tons of different ways that you can have your coffee,
but I love. I love fresh coffee. I love grinding. The beans
myself, and then putting them into the into the Brewer. I just bought a
new Brewer, actually, I haven't set it up yet, but it's a new
Ninja Brewer and I'm looking forward to
trying that one out. I was going to go with a Brevel, but it
would cost a little bit too much for me and I was just like
not quite not quite ready to be that committed. So the Ninja
should be nice. I'm looking forward to taking that for spin.
Besides coffee, I've started to get into Tea.
Mostly herbal teas, but I have tried a few black and green
teas, which is sad for me because there used to be a
Tivana next to me like where I where I work and it's just
like not there anymore,
Unfortunately closed down way back in the day like two years ago,
maybe no not even a year ago I want to say they closed that shop
down so can't get your Tea there anymore. But there's a Starbucks
in that same area, in that same little strip and
they have like the Little tea packets there that I enjoy so
yeah, tea, coffee. I used to be a big... I used to be a big milk drinker
actually as well, but having some stomach troubles in this
day and age, milk doesn't go over very well with me anymore.
C'est la Vie. I'm trying to think if there's anything else that I
used I used to be heavy into soda as well. Coke pop whatever
you want to call it but I've kind of cut that out, over
the past month and I really don't miss it. Honestly, you
start to forget what it tastes
like so that's better for me, I guess but yeah, primarily just
coffee is my favority go to drink. Orange juice is
another one. I love a good a good orange juice or apple
juice. Truthfully, especially like in the morning. maybe with
like a breakfast, some eggs,
some bacon, some Orange juice. Oh so good so good and then get your orange juice you
down that first and then you have your coffee while you're
eating your food. Aww...
So good so good great question Weks apparently because now I'm
thinking about breakfast. I need to find a breakfast place now
'cause. It's too late for breakfast, cool and our next
question comes from Chris
Henington, this is a first for Christ here. Chris asks, Hey J, 2, I know that you've
lived in the Pacific Northwest. How do you like it? Where do you
heil from originally. So Chris I actually live in the Pacific
Northwest right now. I live in Oregon. I've moved around quite
a bit over the past couple of years though, I've lived in Utah, I've lived in
Washington, I've lived in
Oregon. But I originally heil from New Jersey and I lived there for the first
twenty or so years of my life and
I guess the biggest thing that I enjoy about the Pacific
Northwest that was a pain for me in New Jersey is the space
that's available. I don't feel cramped in the Pacific
Northwest. At least where I live, I know if you go to like
downtown Seattle or downtown Portland. You know the big
cities you still kind of feel that urban
environment but where I live. It's spacious, you know, and
there's trees and there's fresh air and you really at least
where I lived in New Jersey. Everything was kind of like
urbanized, suburbanized there weren't that... there wasn't that much
space. I always used to joke that
in order for someone to build something in New Jersey, you kind
of had to tear something down first and you know a lot of
cases and a lot of times, truth be told there's alot of history
in New Jersey and that's one thing that I miss about it is that you
can go to like these older buildings. Hundreds of years
old. These churches and these
city halls, these structures that just aren't present here in the Pacific
Northwest because you know it's only been about a hundred to a hundred-fifty years
since the Pacific Northwest was settled so there's a big
difference there. Of course, nothing compares to places in
Europe where there is thousands of years of history there so.
It's all a matter of perspective really, but yeah I originally
heil from New Jersey and one thing that I get chided on a
little bit. I know that at this point, probably there's not too
much of an accent left but there are a few times where there are
words that I say that
I have to think about what I'm saying before I say it otherwise
a slip of the accent might come out. Like for example, the
word yesterday. I have to... I have to think about when I'm
saying the word yesterday. Otherwise, I'll just say
yesterday and that's me
just kind of going back to that accent, so it... I don't even know
truthfully if it is a New Jersey in specific thing but that's
just the way I was when I was growing up. That's the word I
would use yeterday versus yesterday. When I remember when
I lived in Utah somebody called a creak
a crick and I was like what the hell? What's a crick? So accents
change all over the U.S. just so large that you've got different
accents within the same nation, obviously so... I don't know how
I started talking about accents when the question was how do you like the
Pacific NorthWest. So this is the part where I wish I had a script
and I had at least had like talking points to review because I just
kind of went off on a tangent there again. Other things I
like about the Pacific Northwest is that I enjoy the weather
here, truthfully and, yah know, people say, "Well it's too cloudy in the Pacific
Northwest, there's no sun." And, yes, it's cloudy, but I'll take
cloudy over the humidity that can sometimes happen on the Jersey
coast, especially in the summer time, like you can feel like
you're take a shower and you're sitting on your couch in New
Jersey versus here in Oregon where,
you know, I think the worst I've gotten so far as a wind chill
every now and again and even then, it's very minor only lasts
for a day or so, there has been no snow here this past year. At
least where I live so the whole polar... Polar vortex thing that
happened a week or so ago, didn't
happen here, we didn't get it. I'm OK with all that, I'm absolutely OK with
all that. I think one last thing that I enjoy specifically about
the Pacific Northwest is just that the pace here is different
and I used to not like it. I used to... I used to be annoyed by
it, when I lived in Jersey everything kid of goes
at a faster pace and you're just used to that, that's how you're born
that's how you're raised, everything has to be go go go, but
when you move... When I first moved to Utah and that's not Pacific
Northwest, that's more just like the rocky area. Things slow down
quite a bit and then still here in Oregon and in Washington people just take their
time, that's just the way that things are here and I'm OK with
that. Now I've kind of gotten used to that actually so I do
enjoy that aspect of the Pacific Northwest. So I hope that
answers your question Chris, I don't know how long I'll be
staying in the Pacific Northwest. That's always, that's
always up to the powers that be.
But I enjoy it, I enjoy my time while I've been living here.
Absolutely. And that is that is our last question for today's Q and A
video. Now as I mentioned next week I'm going on a business
trip and I won't have time to to record a Q&A video with your
questions for next week, So what
I'm going to do next week, so everyone's aware in advance. I'm going to create
my own questions that I'd like you to answer and I think
that this would be a nice give and take here where, you know, I
would love to hear more specific feedback along a few questions
that I have and I hope you all
can spare a few minutes to answer them for me. It
doesn't have to be one person answering the questions, I invite
as many answers to the same questions as possible. Please
that really helped it's almost like a survey if you really want
to think about it that way. But that will be coming out next
week and then the following
week, we'll continue again with our regular Q and A sessions so
that's my plan. Until next time this is JSquared
Jon Jeremy signing out, saying so long and take care.
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