Gaming and Other Stuff Channel

"Hello everyone, and today..."

Gaming and Other Stuff Channel, or simply GOSC (born November 22) is a YouTuber that plays usually obscure games, reviews book, and does random commentary videos. He has done reviews of shows in the past.

History
GOSC started creating YouTube-style commentary gameplay videos in May 2017 but he never released these videos until his 3-year channel anniversary.

GOSC's channel was made in May 31, 2018 with his real name but would be renamed to another name in September 2018. Shortly after the channel rename, GOSC uploaded his first video entitled "A New Game, A New Start! (Pokemon Fire Red)". The video also first introduces GOSC's passion for game development as it explains that the copy of Pokemon Fire Red was altered shortly before so it could be repurposed into a fan game. After 5 (4 videos are currently private) more uploads, the channel goes dormant.

In June 2019, GOSC returned by uploading 3 videos. The channel quickly went dormant again.

Sometime after September 2019, GOSC renamed his channel to it's current name.

On November 22, 2019, GOSC announced that he will be returning to uploading videos. Shortly after he indeed uploaded several videos to his channel, most of them ironically announcements.

Starting from January 2020 to September 15, 2020, GOSC has uploaded videos to his channel almost daily. The only interruption would be in March 2020 when GOSC had to temporarily stop uploading videos due to excessive school work.

In mid March, GOSC would start researching on 2020 VISION. This research would lead him to find out that TheTekkitRealm lied about 2020 VISION in his video, leading to him having a biased perspective of 2020 VISION in the process. Curious, he stumbles upon the fact that TheTekkitRealm has allegedly done this many times before. This would lead him to release a video on TheTekkitRealm and an upcoming follow-up.

On May 31, 2021, GOSC would celebrate his 3-year channel anniversary. Over the next few days he would upload several unreleased videos to his Alt Tab channel in commemoration.

On June 5, GOSC would launch his WordPress website.

Game development
On November 13, 2020, he released a short video game developed with Ren'Py onto itch.io titled "change da world". This is currently his only successful attempt at game development.

Experimentation with ARGs and the Unlisted video feature
Starting from January 10 to January 14, 2020, GOSC started experimenting with unlisted videos in the hopes of setting up an Alternate Reality Game (ARG). He in particular experimented with his playthrough of The Stanley Parable, combining the use of YouTube's card feature, binary and Slow Scan Television (SSTV). The end game of this mini-ARG was to announce another playthrough of Portal 2 (in binary).

Archival
GOSC was introduced to the Wayback Machine and archival in general by DanTDM when he made a video in 2017 entitled "MY YOUTUBE REWIND 2016!!!", although it would take 2 years for GOSC to make an account in the Internet Archive.

His first contribution to the Internet Archive would be a sampler disk of 1994 Star Wars game Dark Forces. From there GOSC would go on to contribute heavily to the Internet Archive, particularly the Wayback Machine. He would even contribute so much to the Wayback Machine that on January 26, 2021, his IP would be temporarily blocked by the Internet Archive then permanently instated a 15 URL per minute quota on it.

On June 7, 2021, GOSC would archive most of his entire channel onto the Internet Archive.

Content
GOSC's content consists of gameplay videos, commentary videos and announcements. The gameplay videos often focus on a lesser-known game and usually doesn't have any commentary from GOSC. His commentary videos are plain and straight to the point. His announcement videos are very plain and are always edited using Windows Live Movie Maker. GOSC has almost never told people to subscribe or like his videos as he thinks this is annoying.

Let's Play Series
GOSC usually plays games only once, but every once in a while he actually tries to complete the games he's playing.

Interests

 * Archival
 * Game development
 * Video editing
 * Programming
 * Reading books

Subscriber Milestones

 * 1 subscriber: September 15, 2018
 * 15 subscribers: February 2020
 * 20 subscribers: May 2020
 * 25 subscribers: August 2020
 * 30 subscribers: November 10, 2020
 * 35 subscribers: March 2021
 * 40 subscribers: August 10, 2021

Video View Milestones

 * 59 views: September 13, 2019
 * 1,600 views: May 29, 2020
 * 2,000 views: July 2020
 * 2,500 views: August 2020
 * 3,000 views: September 2020
 * 3,500 views: December 2020
 * 4,000 views: March 2021
 * 4,500 views: May 2, 2021
 * 5,000 views: June 25, 2021
 * 6,000 views: September 3, 2021

Trivia

 * GOSC's favorite color is blue.
 * GOSC's favorite game is Brick Breaker Revolution (2007).
 * His second favorite game is either Half Life or Portal.
 * GOSC's least favorite game is Last Day of June.
 * GOSC's favorite instrument is the piano.
 * GOSC can code in HTML, JavaScript and a bit of CSS.
 * GOSC's current channel banner was made and applied on April 14, 2020.
 * GOSC often hides secret Google Drive links in the descriptions of his videos. These link to video extras.
 * The GOSC channel used to be a Pokémon channel, but was turned into a gaming and other stuff channel once GOSC realized he wanted to do more than just Pokémon.
 * Despite claiming to have a Twitter in January 2020, GOSC's public Twitter would not be made until April.