As a small scale manufacturer and businessman, I get it, totally. My day job and family life often throws off my ability to create and post new products for sale. You do what you need to do, my brother. Your fans aren't going anywhere.

Beer, philosophy and rolling dice. If I ever open that tavern/book-reading bookstore/coffee place whatever, that will be the name of the place, inspired by this video 😁 And what do you mean, this is not a hobby video, you have a t shirt with dice on it, so it counts!

Philosophical ramblings are fine. I'm here for it. Just let me know so I can grab my drink first. 🍺🍺

I've got to say, for using only ambient light, this video looks great.

I appreciated the vibe and freewheeling ramble of this. Cheers.

Bruh??? Deep thoughts. What's in the brew, and does your brother sell those beers? 😂 Great episode!

No worries. We watch your videos as part of our hobby. You making the videos is part of your hobby. Sometimes life interferes and I can’t see your video until a few days later. Sometimes your life interferes and even your hobby time gets interrupted. One of the reasons your videos resonate with me is that you’re human, not a full time scripted entertainer. I get it, and I respect your need to keep things in order

I love ALL Tabletop Alchemy videos! Including philosophical pub rambles.

I wish I could sit a listen to this while I worked on my hobby stuff. I'm working on a commission piece and it's an absolute blast. But instead, I'm working my 2nd job and modeling parts in CAD. I'm just glad to have your ramblings to keep me going while I push through the monotony. Seriously, these videos that aren't "videos" but are videos worth watching are some of my favorite videos. Carry on good Sir.

Cheers

Really appreciate these free-form videos. Love the beer chat. I found a stout in the local supermarket, made with coffee and an ABV of 12%. I can't sleep if I do caffeine after lunchtime so I'm thinking it'd make a great breakfast 😀 Ramble on, dude!

Just watching the beer sloshing in the glass is making me thirsty! I need to start a batch of beer.

Y'know, I had a beer while watching this video. Thanks for the hangout, brother!

Glad to hear the Day Job is picking up. Gotta pay for those hobby supplies.

Well, my previous comment was unexpected... I drew comfort on your words today. It made me think a little bit. Thank you.

Honestly I love these videos. I see them as the alchemy side of our hobby lives. 😀 Gotta follow where our oddball 😉 (oops philosophical, I meant philosophical honest) thoughts take us.😊

Hang in there. Enjoy life.

I’m saving this for tomorrow morning coffee while packing orders - 01:00 am now so time for some sleep

If determinism implies that I have no free will, then I reject that philosophy at my core. I require at least the illusion that I have agency in this 'verse.

I think it's called 'Keeping it real!' Own it! Now I want a beer too....slainte!

Lol epic beer fueled ramble!

It’s a great , honest ramble of truth life from a very creative guy 👍🏼

Everyone has limited time, energy, and attention, so if you run out of one or more right now, that's cool. I am the exact type of beer drinker you are. Beers with a friend over dinner are fantastic, but beer alone is not my thing anymore.

As someone who works a 40 hour desk job, I am unable to blame you. The difficult finding time for things you enjoy being this common is truly a modern problem.

Never played a TTG in my life; just here to hang out with the wizard and his familiar. Don't give yourself such a hard time, just go with the flow. love you guys.

One of the best beers I ever had was one my paramedic friend would make in his closet. I don't know how he created that chocolate stout, but 15 years later I still remember it.

This was very fascinating to me! I mean, I thought my brain was going to explode keeping up with the understanding. But I really enjoyed it. It’s understandable to have off videos especially when you have an another day job! Keep fighting the good fight whatever that may be! Cheers! 🍻

Very unique show today, watched it and then watched it a second time with an open bottle of good scotch and after a few shots the show really spoke to me. Now having a good buzz and the wife watching me strangely time for bed. Keep up the great unique shows.🎉

The universe likes balance. The balance of chaos has to be in order 😁 I admire your trust in "science" 🙄 The human brain is best at pattern recognition, searching for order in everything. Seeing patterns still doesn't mean their real, to anyone else but us puny humans. Chaos forever.

"Order is the prevailing form of chaos" --something Runequest I think Anyhow, cheers. Glad to have a beer with you :)

Don't worry, you aren't drinking alone, I have a beer and a soju - just a week later than you. Order Vs. Chaos - I have never understood organised Anarchists. Also, this is so like some of the conversations I have been involved in during a good drinking session. And string theory, the multiverse, you did hit the green lights, you never left home and watch Run Lola Run - getting an anniversary re-release.

Seeing as I'm part of the handful that are still around from your Minecraft days, I hope you realize that there are people that find you and keep coming back because of you, and not any particular thing that you are doing (but, you know, the things that you do do are pretty entertaining, not trying to discredit any of that), so the inevitable waxing philosophical episode is always welcome.

I feel your pain brother. One of the advantages I have is being able to voice out a :30 or a :60 sec commercial in under 5 minutes if I don't get to flustered by the client. Or if they are not asking me to put in a shit load of sound fx or change the background tunes. I can just imagine what you go through. The broken up monologue had me just about rolling on the floor. You jumped around more then a six year old after eating six regular size Hershey Bars. From Asteroids to traffic lights. "Out of Chaos comes order" Friedrich Nietzsche. I can't have a beer. I am on the air.

When you look back in time, everything is deterministic in the sense that it has already definitely happened. When you look forward in time, everything is stochastic (chaotic, random) in that it only _might_ happen.

I was reading Brian Greene's hidden reality and I had this existential crisis from a mathematical perspective. Thankfully there is equal evidence that the universe is open ended...the catch is you have to imagine the superposition of the particle is dominant not the particle..in English for the universe to be open particles have to be imaginary...it's not difficult. If you are in the ocean and are tossed by a wave you only react with what touches you but the entire wave still exists and could be argued is more real than the small part you are interacting with. Oh the singularity that may have started the universe was concidered to be highly ordered. It was chaos that made it expand.

Beer!

You should check out the miniseries "Devs" which explores themes around free will and determinism very much like what you were talking about.

gluing minis from dungeons and lasers together for the past couple weeks and will be gluing for a few more :D so this is entertaining!

I'd like to trade beer recipes with your brother! My "Sembian Ale" was a big hit back in the 90s! 🍻

I went to Basic in '89. Ft. Leonard Wood, MO.

Man, it's fine, I also think about the most random existential shit when doing whatever, like eating a salad and then I'm on a tangent of vegetable evolution and genetics and then bam I'm wondering whether I'm just a few inherited preferences guiding a meat computer that has varied actions because of hormones. Rambling videos are part of why I like this channel btw.

I hate due dates... they are rude and unreasonable... so I talked to my boss about this issue. She too was rude and unreasonable about due dates as well. Being an adult and responsible is serious hampering my hobby time.... hahaha

a fun debate is predeterminism vs free will. is your free will predetermined by some outside force you can't control, or is your belief on predeterminism where your entire life is set in stone chosen by your free will?

Three Body Problem. 😂 Free Will, does it exist? Wrong question. The correct question is, does knowing the answer change your actions? If your future is deterministic would you act differently? Then does it matter if you have free will or only the illussion of free will? A phrase used by the title character in the play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. Hamlet suggests that human knowledge is limited: There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy [science].

I see these sorts of videos pop up from time to time. Oh no, real life has interferred with my YT production. I try and limit my YT consumption to two hours a day. It's one of my main sources of entertainment. And as a good human, I'm going to take a leap of faith and assume I'm some what representative of your community. A small part of your subs will be here for niche topics they wish to learn. But the majority of watchers are here to immerse themselves in the belief that if we are not actually friends, we certainly would be, IRL, if we just lived down the road from each other. So [almost] no one cares a jot that you didn't get to make the content that you want. We just want to sit and imagine we are drinking a beer with you and shooting the breeze about home-brew and hobby. I bet this doesn't help your anxiety. That's because you are a person of integrity. Maybe if you check the stats, you'll find very little difference between last week's views and this week. People want, nay, are crying out for ethics and integrity, interesting and engaging content providers. People they want to invest their time into. You have those qualities and you will get people watching your content for as long as you put it up. Have a good one. Cheers.

street light, dinosaurs, determinism... are you sure it's 8.9%? I dislike determinism of certain types, because it suggests that we don't effect the outcomes of the course we're on. the idea that it's already determined if I become homeless, have a stroke or lose everything in a fire. So it doesn't matter what I want or do, and it doesn't matter if i believe it matters, and convincing me about a deterministic universe doesn't matter either, what's already happened in the future will happen, so why try at anything, why seek anything, why try to change course for better health, save for a future etc.? it has parallels in the brain in a vat idea, where you can't prove this world isn't just fake sensory data sent to your disembodied brain floating in a vat. At a certain point you have to decide to act as if this is all real, because if it isn't it doesn't matter, but if it is it makes all the difference in the world. So it makes more sense to live your life like the outcome isn't yet decided and you have agency in deciding the course of certain things. because if you don't, you'd not change anything by believing one way or the other, but if it matters what you do and think and you chose to live like it doesn't you can create a mess of a life that didn't have to be that way.

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Your Catholic education is coming through :)

There cannot be total chaos. Just by looking at the mathematical configurations in nature it's clear there's some form of ordered design going on, whether or not it's inherent to the universe or something set out by a higher power. Another layer to consider is fatalism. Some believe in total fatalism, wherein all things are preordained and we only have the illusion of choice. Then there's also limited fatalism, wherein SOME things are predetermined, but most of life is seemingly random. I tend to believe in limited fatalism because total fatalism means we have no actual impact on our lives. All choices and thoughts are illusion. We're just along for the ride. If that were the case, we're literally in a simulation... The asteroid example as a case-in-point for limited fatalism. We can impact things around us... within a limited scope. I got up to 6000+ level Philosophy courses back in college as part of my studies. Focusing in Epistemology, Existentialism, Ontology, Ethics... Fun times. Great conversations over beers.