how long is an alternian year? 

in any case this is a really fun video!

Was just about to comment that, glad I came down here first

oh yeah, good point. i think a point i totally didn't elaborate on enough (/ considered enough in the process) was the distinction between what's a unit people make up for themselves, societally, a la Seasons and Calendar Years too, as opposed to scientific units. i only bring this up briefly and it would've probably helped to elaborate on this since it's pretty interesting

oh true lmao. how did i miss that

yeah, the video went very offtopic from the original point on purpose. my videos are just like, a way for me to talk about a bunch of things on my mind. and yup, it did not answer the titular question. for a long time, i wanted to talk about the (really weird and flawed) state of modern media analysis, especially in games, and figured that this fun experiment i did on my own time was a fun thing to also segue into that topic. i hope the result wasnt a cruel feeling of "i tricked people who like theories into a video about why theories are BAD! ha!", since i moreso tried to touch on how "theories are fun, here's an example of how not to treat these fun little theories that matter much less than deeper analysis"

@@BoogsNStuff That is an interesting point, but I think it is severely undermined by how you don't *really* say what's wrong with the way you treated the theory. The only problem you pointed out was your literary dismissal of Hiveswap and troubling evidence, which really only parallels some of the theories from The [Media] Theorists, and not any problem inherent to the format. You don't really tackle the core of the theory's literalism: the obsession on cold data. You never actually say why it's bad that the viewer wanted to watch an interpretation on how long a Homestuck year is, why we should not try to find out how that 29-day month callendar could fit, how tall Mario is, the state Springfield is in, Sonic's exact age. This type of questions is actually at the core of hyperliteralism. Yet this video treats MatPat ignoring things that goes against his theories and Homestuck adhering to dumb jokes as literal events as if they were the same thing. The whole reason MatPat gets backlash when he ignores a cutscene, or the fact Papyrus is Sans' brother, or whole seasons of The Simpsons is that it's antithetical to this hyperliteralism. So using his channels' dishonesty to criticize modern fan-theorizing in general is senseless, as it's eliminated by engaging in it harder. The theory is interchangeable in its relation to the rest of the video, only being particularly relevant because of your assertion that Homestuck was hurt by literalism. Which makes the lack of an answer even less justified. All in all, this makes for a great video, and I am excited to see where this channel will go next! Imma subscribe.

@@driveasandwich6734 You make a really good point, but I do want to clarify: I don't have an inherent issue with the topic of the video or the kind of video it is. It's fun to play with numbers like this. Extracting too many numbers from a text and toying with an idea is fun. Problems arise when these fun thought experiments are presented as "cracking the mystery" and "secret Lore intended by the devs" and not the fun simple things they are, and in that discouraging making actual narrative readings of texts with a focus on metaphor as opposed to literalism and lore. It's not bad that the viewer wanted to watch a video about the length of an alternian year, I'm not spec-ops-the-lining you here ;P

budget cuts, had to settle for the most superficial commentator on con-langues instead

@@BoogsNStuff Fair enough, but did you know that there are new radio shows in Esperanto every week?

Sweeps are called “solar sweeps,” so I think it’s pretty safe to assume that they use a solar calendar

basically... matpat passes his videos off as *how things are*, not like... the fun little theorycrafting romps they actually are. He pretends to be intellectually rigorous, like he has all the facts, but most of what he does is just fun tangents guessing at things. He's multiplying and dividing the same two numbers together so it all comes up Golden Freddy. He pretends to be figuring out solutions and truths when really he's just kinda making things up from mostly nothing a lot of the time, and that's bad because it makes his audience feel smart while not really thinking.

@@PilkScientist thank you.

poopoo head

false...

In logic and computer systems, "global" is shorthand for "everywhere" because for most of our history, and even for practical reasons today, everywhere we can go or have been has been on the same planet.