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This video made me like walking around in my city more. I love Grand Theft Auto 5 and Los Santos.

#grandtheftauto #gta #gta5 #architecture

Select sources and additional reading:

1) NPS Preservation Briefs

For whatever reason the national parks service put out a booklet on how to identify buildings by their architecture. I ended up simplifying, glossing over, and adjusting some of these strict methods for the flow of the video, but a lot of the basic knowledge comes from in here.

https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1739/upload/preservation-brief-17-architectural-character.pdf

The NPS has lots of these articles, so here's another one that we took bits of information from.

https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1739/upload/preservation-brief-13-steel-windows.pdf

2) Misc. Articles On Architecture

A lot of the research was amalgams of articles like these, where it's just some blog writing things up about some particular aspect of architecture. These were kind of hairy, because a lot of them present their info as authoritative or self-evident without sourcing themselves, BUT, you see a lot of the same "common sense" tropes across these types of articles, so I figured for my silly YouTube video the sheer volume of repeated claims was sufficient.

https://www.archdaily.com/1012186/the-legacy-of-the-sawtooth-roof-an-icon-of-industrial-architecture

3) Some Museum Website Stuff

These were less good for immediate info, but in terms of having informational "pillars" that I could use to find other things to look at it was helpful. Shoutout to small museums and conservation efforts.

https://www.laconservancy.org/tours-events/events-calendar/art-deco/

4) California Government Websites

And of course, lots of visits to local websites for L.A. or California in general, most of which have little history sections or things you can look at.

https://lacity.gov/government/history-los-angeles

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#kingdomcomedeliverance #kcd #bohemia

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INFO ABOUT MY INFO:

To read primary documents regarding Bohemian "land use" charters and the division of land into economic functions, see: https://www.monasterium.net/mom/CZ-NA/RBB/1/charter

(My general claim about forests being categorized by their economic function is probably slightly overstated, but it's based on multiple of these pages I attempted to translate that showed parcels of land being bestowed upon certain people for certain functions like hunting or wood-cutting. Maybe more true to say that they were "often granted" to certain people for certain functions, rather than "categorized".)

For information about the origins of stories involving old witches kidnapping children, and the source for the claim that these stories have existed for centuries see chapter 2 of "Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children, and the Culture Industry" by Jack Zipes, which is hilariously titled "The Rationalization of Abandonment and Abuse in Fairy Tales". Read excerpt here: https://books.google.com/books?id=tTSAAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA39#v=onepage&q&f=false

Silver Mining in the Kingdom of Bohemia by Petr Hrubý, pages 41-45 discuss mining in Bohemia, but also touch on things like charcoal burners and wood-cutters. Read excerpts here: https://brill.com/display/book/9789004693661/BP000020.xml

Here's that 2024 paper about safety and security in medieval Bohemia re: bandits and stuff: https://www.upjs.sk/app/uploads/sites/7/2025/02/CaH_2024_2_Janis.pdf

I think all my other claims are mainstream enough to have been made on Wikipedia pages for their respective topics.

#skyrim #bethesda #forestry #trending

I tried to figure out how many trees there are in Skyrim — without using mods or wikis. By walking the world, running real statistical surveys, and then checking the game files, I compared my guesses (and those of a bunch of other creators) to the actual number, with $10,000 going to charity for whoever came closest.

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Available on Android, iOS and Steam.

This video reverse-engineers GTA V’s hidden legal system by testing 20+ “crimes” in front of cops to figure out which actions the game actually treats as illegal, how harshly they’re punished (via stars), and what that says about Los Santos’s priorities (civilians vs property vs police vs infrastructure).

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#reddeadredemption2 #rdr2 #rockstar #census

In this video, we'll be conducting a census of the NPCs in the town of Valentine, in Red Dead Redemption 2. The census will include employment status, employment industry, income level, age, and overall health, and the goal of the video will be to gather enough data about the people living here to do a demographic comparison between Valentine (fiction town from 1907) to real census and demographic data from 1907 frontier America.

A lot of the video will be spent trying, with various degrees of success, to come up with a methodology for surveying a bunch of video game characters that can't talk, and aren't even persistent, so there will be a bit of discussion about sampling methods used by real scientists, and we'll demonstrate those methods using Valentine.

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#cyberpunk2077 #cdprojektred #challenge

This will be a video exploring what life might be like for your average, working-class person in the city of Night City from Cyberpunk 2077. The first portion of the video will be a rundown on where we might live, work, eat, and relax. The second portion (most of it) will be a summary of a livestream where I "lived" in Cyberpink 2077 for "seven days", which worked out to be 21 hours of real time.

The focus of the video will mostly be on the monotony of daily living, and the surprising ways in which doing a challenge like this created moments of empathy, nostalgia, frustration, and immersion in a relatively short amount of time.

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#gta #vicecity We love GTA vice cityyyyyyy

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