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My stage name is an arcane movie reference. My real name is actually the only Slavic name that's spelled the way it sounds. I just picked Alexander Vornoff because it sounds like what you would expect from someone with my persona. Stage names come from lots of different places. Nicholas Cage...

I've decided to issue a small challenge because it amuses me. There's no prize here except bragging rights and the nature of it is because so many of you guys post videos where you just so serious all the time. So here's your challenge: Take everything I've talked about here and try to make a...

Sure, go ahead and steal my thunder. Honestly, I had hoped people would be a little more interested in the Voynich manuscript and the rongorongo, but then not everyone is as fascinated by languages as I am. Also, I've just been really interested in learning about pre-colonial Polynesian...

Science is an amazing thing. A few more interesting facts as long as I'm still suffering from insomnia: David Berglas and Marc Paul are the only two people on the planet who know the method to Berglas's Any Card at Any Number effect. That is also the exact same number of people who know: -The...

I'll report the threads, see if we can get a mod to conflate them into a couple of master threads assigned to specific users. EDIT: Report sent. (sigh) The things I do to kill time when I'm sick.

Except that was fairly obviously a troll with a dramatic overestimation of his own writing abilities. This dude can barely speak English. Unless you want to get into Poe's Law...

No. You had your chance to show me you were willing to learn. You blew it. In fact, you are lying to me right now. You don't want critiques. You want me to subscribe to your channel and give you compliments that you haven't earned. Every piece of advice I've offered you, you have responded...

I'm going to go ahead and guess that I must be the first Slavic person you've ever met. I actually can be very friendly... to people who actually want to learn. You want me to stop critiquing your work? Done. Though I would suggest you perhaps watch the movie Glengary Glen Ross, and in...

No. But I also am not going to stick around and listen to excuses. Hate is far too strong a word. I reserve my hatred for actual threats to society, people who think an acceptable form of debate is to send others rape and death threats, and the current governor of my state.

Is that really all you took away from that critique? Did I just waste my time on advice you're not going to listen to anyway? Oh dear. Being "YouTube famous" is like being good at eating cereal. Before I get into why this isn't a worthy goal, let me first say that scientists have actually...

Well, that's the thing. The restaurant gig is mostly just to sustain you between private parties, which is where the better money is. Trying to make a living off of a restaurant gig alone can be done, but it's not easy. Restaurants are unlikely to have you come in more than once a week...

Now that the lecture is overwith, I'll proceed with my standard practice. Thoughts as they occur to me. 0:03 - Points docked immediately for the fact that I can't see your face. I hate watching disembodied hands alone. Magic is about people, not body parts that may or may not be attached...

The, "If I haven't seen it, it's new to me!" defense, huh? In the last month, we must have had a dozen people asking if the move they came up with was done before, and someone always pointed out the exact book or DVD where it was done before. Do you really think you're going to be the...

I have three things to say. 1. Chances are, someone beat you to this trick. You have no idea how difficult it is to come up with legitimately original material. 2. No I will not subscribe to your channel because you've already spammed the ever-loving **** out of this board with extraneous...

Well, there's always this. (hint hint, shameless self-promotion) It sounds to me like you're not rehearsing or putting any thought into the pre-production. There's a joke that most B-movies are created because someone with a film camera said, "We have flashlights and a dark space; let's make...

And what is the store that you will be trying to draw people to? Or is that another one of those details that was unfortunately omitted when you accepted the gig? As for the routines... I'm not seeing how any of these things flow into each other. Honestly, you could chew up ten minutes on a...

That wasn't technically what I said. But since you brought it up, I'm thinking it now. So... break this down. You perform from 5-7. PM, I assume? Do you do 20 minute platform show first and then nothing but parlor magic at the table for the next hour and 40 minutes? Or do you perform the...

A quick piece of advice to build on this. The hardest thing for most people to start with when dressing themselves is figuring out how to use color. I only just started learning about this myself. The first thing you have to do is determine your skin tone. Hop in the shower, wash your face...

To a point, accepting that exposure is inevitable is important. A lot of modern millionaires who made their fortune selling information products online embraced the fact that piracy was inevitable. Rather than trying to stop the pirates, they instead focused on incentivizing everyone else to...

I ask myself, "What allows me to accomplish this effect with the least amount of work?" I always take the path that allows me to focus less on my hands and more on the audience in front of me. Fewer steps, fewer things that can go wrong. Sell me on this one. Why shouldn't I use a nail...