They let me write another book

0:00 Okay the five second version of this video is

0:02 I have a new book you can pre-order it right

0:04 now and if you get the deluxe edition within two

0:08 days of this video coming out I’ll sign the book.

0:13 Is this a channel about video games?

0:15 It certainly started out that way.

0:18 By the end of this year,

0:20 I will have released 100 full entire proper scripted videos on this channel,

0:25 and most of them have been about games.

0:29 Not only games.

0:30 They’ve also been about politics and history and life and, you know,

0:35 I get very philosophical about learning to parry and stuff.

0:38 But most of that was still through the lens of games.

0:42 It’s what my first book, How a Game Lives,

0:45 focused on— a lot of you have already experienced

0:48 just how cool and big of a project that was.

0:51 But a lot of what I’ve been most proud of on this channel,

0:54 when it feels like I’m taking the biggest risks,

0:57 is when I step outside my comfortable place in the gaming world.

1:01 It’s the essays where I talk about…Capital Punishment.

1:05 Or Death of a Salesman.

1:07 Or Piranesi, or school design, or what it means to throw something away.

1:12 And the most meaningful part of the seven years I’ve spent on YouTube

1:17 has been learning that if I care about something, you will too.

1:22 About Infinity, or the Dark, or the poetry of a forest.

1:26 I don’t have to trick you into caring.

1:30 You’re ready to take the leap with me.

1:33 Which is all to say… I’m making another book.

1:36 In some ways, it’s similar to How a Game Lives.

1:40 In other ways, this is another one of those big risks.

1:44 You’re Not Overthinking It will release next year,

1:47 an annotated essay collection of these most

1:50 significant works of my YouTube career.

1:53 The False Evolution of Execution Methods.

1:55 How Can We Bear To Throw Anything Away.

1:57 Fear of Dark.

1:58 The Shape of Infinity, Art for No One.

2:01 These, and many others, will be published, annotated to hell and back by me,

2:06 and accompanied by exceptional new essays by brilliant other authors.

2:11 You’re Not Overthinking It, much like How a Game Lives,

2:15 will be a huge, beautiful book, full of original art and original writing.

2:20 I cannot tell you how excited I am to be sharing a book with these people,

2:25 including, but not limited to: Author of Martyr!

2:28 Kaveh Akbar, Author of Raw Dog Jamie Loftus,

2:31 one of the progenitors of the modern video essay Mike Rugnetta,

2:35 Creative Director of 1000xResist Remy Siu, and many more incredible writers.

2:40 Do you want to read Mike Rugnetta writing about head transplants??

2:46 You do.

2:47 I promise you do.

2:49 Also, if you’re watching this before September 27,

2:52 you know who designed this book?

2:54 My incredible fiance.

2:55 If you’re watching after September 27, you know who designed this book?

3:01 My incredible WIFE.

3:02 I want to tell you so much more about the book

3:05 but first let me tell you how to get it.

3:08 You’re Not Overthinking It is available right now

3:10 for pre-order from my wonderful publisher Lost in Cult.

3:13 If you’d like, you can just order the book,

3:16 it will be big and gorgeous and look great on your shelf.

3:19 OR, if you’d like, you can order the limited Deluxe Edition,

3:24 which is only available during this pre-order period.

3:26 THAT will have, in addition to the book, a sleek-as-hell slipcase,

3:30 a 7-inch VINYL with some of the original songs written for my videos,

3:35 including Ashley Young’s incredible song from Fear of Dark,

3:38 a print of the cover, So, the link is in the description,

3:44 the book will be coming out next year, now I want to tell you more about it.

3:49 This book, You’re Not Overthinking It,

3:51 is the latest in my parallel efforts to 1.

3:55 preserve and 2.

3:56 obsessively re-examine my work.

3:58 This book will be around for longer than YouTube.

4:01 There is no doubt in my mind that is true.

4:04 No matter what happens to this or Nebula or the internet writ large,

4:09 with this on your shelf, on my shelf, there will be some remnant

4:14 of my work that’s maintained for the future.

4:18 But more than that, this is a chance to go

4:21 over each of these essays with a fine tooth comb,

4:23 pulling apart each decision that led to their creation and how my feelings—

4:29 and/or the world— has changed in the years since I first published them.

4:33 This is an effort to keep the text alive,

4:36 to never have “the final word” on something

4:38 in a world where we never stop learning and growing.

4:42 On YouTube, it feels like the natural impulse is towards disposability.

4:46 Your work only matters as much as your last video,

4:50 your view count either goes up or down.

4:53 But this, here, is my push in the opposite direction.

4:56 I think these essays, whether they’re one or three or six years old,

5:00 matter in understanding what I’m doing with this platform that I have.

5:05 Thank you for listening to me talk about

5:08 this, for caring about the things I care about,

5:11 for giving me the incredible gift of being able to publish not one

5:15 but two books full of my passions

5:17 and doubts and ridiculously talented colleagues.

5:19 Get it soon, get it signed, get a vinyl for your troubles.

5:25 You’re Not Overthinking It is available

5:29 for pre-order right now from Lost in Cult.