More details soon...ish. Banjos to bow, Xaurips to fight, and probably a meeting I need to get to. - Venus ☕

Thanks in no small part to the incredible work of the team behind Avowed, I'm excited to be a part of your adventure in The Living Lands and hopefully give you the same feelings, sense of adventure, and awe that these types of games give me.

And, for those with keen ears, I'm sure you'll recognize a few nods to the absolutely iconic soundtracks of PoE and Deadfire...with a bit of a twist, of course.

With the support and unimaginably hard work of the team at Obsidian I think we've been able to create something that brings a whole new feel and perspective to the PoE series, just like you'll find on your adventures in Avowed.

I can't wait to share the music and sonic worlds we've been working on together and see my take on The Living Lands and the world of Eora out in the wild - bowed banjo and all.

Getting the opportunity to learn from and work with the studio behind some of my favorite games and scores, while also getting to score one of their games myself and creating an immersive soundtrack experience is such a whirlwind of a gig.

I am RIDICULOUSLY excited to announce that the reason I've been a bit quiet this year is that I've been working on the soundtrack for @obsidian's new game @AvowedtheGame. This is probably THE bucket list item for me, musically speaking.

You know, now that Spitfire has turned LABS into subscription garbage, it'd be a REAL shame if someone were to launch a new series of free instruments that run in a free plugin... ...and happened to have the Polybrute 12 to kick things off.

Also hey Devin at @Ubiquitous_HQ... Like 3 emails is more than enough my guy - it's not me, it's you. Take a hint. The whole 'ultimatum' thing is real damn trashy and I think we should break up. I'm just not that into you.🖕

I've never used arcade, and now I know I'll definitely never touch it and happily recommend that my audience doesn't either. You obviously have no real respect for creators beyond them doing your bidding sticking to the script to shill the lowest common denominator. Congrats.

We don't have editors, we don't have graphics teams, we (usually) have a day job. You want (often) solo creators to perform the work of an entire department, then re-edit or even re-shoot the whole video if it doesn't fit exactly what you want with what is a VERY movable goalpost

@Ubiquitous_HQ and @output are really blatantly ignoring the fact that most creators (especially small channels) are solo operations and are always a labor of love. Hell, I still lose money on my channel at 300k+ subs to make my vids happen or at best barely break even.

What @output and other brands conveniently forget to mentions is: months down the line, maybe they change their affiliate payout from 20% (if you're lucky) to 5%. Or they cancel their program altogether (which has happened to me many times back when I did this type of content)

Most of these companies give you the 'deal' of 'hey we have an affiliate program and you can make a BUNCH of money if your video does well!' to make it sound like their bullshit up-front payments for you to do the work of an entire department of people are to be expected.

For small creators who I'm sure these idiots at @Ubiquitous_HQ are harassing: The real problem here is your video is up FOREVER and there's nothing saying that your video doesn't explode in the algorithm 6+ months down the road. I've had this happen myself many times over

Judging by the numbers, I hope you're paying creators fairly (which you definitely are not), and you better be putting up some SERIOUS cash to put up with this level of shilling advertiser friendly bullshit.

Small channels (who I'm sure you're primarily taking aim at because they don't know better) provide even comparable (arguably better) amounts of value. Here's a small (sub 15k channel) creator I worked with who got 39k views on their video over the course of 6 months:

On an 'average' performing video on my channel, I would net you about 1.5m impressions, and ~100k unique targeted viewers.

All the while, they get their super valuable 1 year NFR and some pity cash to do your job for you to make a video that if you're luckily maybe appeals to like...10k people? I'd be shocked if any video for this campaign performs even moderately well.

REQUIRED RESHOOTS WITH NO EXTRA COMPENSATION. God forbid a small creator do something mildly wrong and then potentially have to spend hours (or days if it's a really thorough video) reshooting and re-editing the content to your exact needs and specifications.