LG are here with a little bit of a different thing for you today.

This is going to be a director's commentary slash Q and A of sorts for L G R thrifts, which, in case you're not aware, is one of the more consistently popular things that I do here on L.

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It's just me going out to different thrift stores and looking for interesting things to show, usually old tech and gaming related.

But other times it's just weird crap that I find, because thrift stores are endlessly fascinating there, at least they can be.

The thing is making algae are thrifts.

It takes a lot of work, and it takes a long time that sometimes there's a couple of months in between episodes because it relies completely on luck.

If I don't find fascinating things to talk about not going to film them, and therefore I'm not gonna put him in the video, and I say this is pretty much the end of every single episode.

But yet I'm always getting comments like his L G R thrifts canceled.

Wow, it's been weeks.

Or why haven't you gone thrift ing and so long you seem to be losing interest.

No, no, no, no, not at all.

In fact, it has absolutely nothing to do with losing interest.

It's very much the opposite.

I love going thrift ing.

I love finding fascinating things to show you.

No, I want to keep this going as long as people watch and it remains fun.

But again, the way this works is that is just me putting a camera on my head, usually in the form of these camera glasses right here these I've you 10 80 p thingies.

Or more often than not, I just carry around my cell phone because I don't always have this camera glasses with me, and they're a bit uncomfortable toe wear all the time.

I go thrift ing, and that's because I got drifting like, at least every other day for the thrift stores that are really close.

And then once or twice a week to all the other thrift stores that I go to throughout the series that are a little bit further off.

And then once I've gathered what I feel is enough footage to put together ah, full length episode, I will stick everything into one folder and then drop it in the premier and then chop it up and organize it so that it flows together into a single episode narrative.

Yeah.

I mean, this is why it takes so long sometimes in between thrifts.

Because if I don't find stuff to show, you just don't have an episode, right?

I mean it.

Sure, I could show just crappy trips, so I figured, Hey, why not show you what my typical thrift store visit looks like?

And that's what this footage is right here.

This is one of the thrift stores that I frequent rather often any time that I head into town and, yeah, this is typically all the kind of stop that I'm going to be cutting out of any actual thrift episode These they're heavily edited just to try to make it flow together better so that you're not getting motion sick.

And there's not a bunch of rapid head movements and stuff, which, as you're seeing here, there's plenty of them.

I mean, it's just basically a camera strapped in my head, so it doesn't look great.

And since I know I'm gonna be editing this out anyway, I don't bother trying to slow things down or you're making things any kind of smooth at all with my head movements, because again, I know I'm not going to show this.

I can pretty much tell as I'm filming as I'm looking around these thrift stores that, yeah, the Here's the thing I want to show and here's what I don't and all of this stuff I would never show.

And I Sure, I I know.

Maybe some of you might be thinking, Oh, well, there's still interesting stuff here is still better than my thrift stores.

And while that may be true, it's still not enough for me to want to put it in thrifts, puzzles and board games section here.

I I've done this so much that I could just very quickly glance and just know there's nothing there.

Um, and typically, if I do find something that is really fascinating, you know, I might see it for a second and then, you know, it's all rapid head movements and all, man.

And so then I will go back and then, you know, like a couple seconds later, I will do a slower like past again to get a better shot.

So you might see that here.

I think in a moment where I'm gonna find something kind of halfway interesting and electronics.

But ah, yeah, for the most part, is just It's just junk, you know, No name keyboards and just weak VCR's and blenders and heaters and empty box for a thermal take thing.

And the old power supply that looks like they've replaced with it.

Maybe.

Or maybe there was the thermal take.

When I don't know, Here's something is blue You hear something I don't care about?

You mean like just none of this?

Absolutely.

None of this would I show in algae are thrift now this It was almost interesting.

I have seen one of these in the previous episode, so I didn't pay too much attention to it.

But this is a television eo door.

Tell a caption, too.

It's like a closed captioning machine for older TVs.

I suppose that's what I think it is.

And if I don't know what it is, you know, typically I'll go and I'll just I'll find out what it is while I'm editing.

And that is how it works.

I do not record while I'm filming like my voice.

In fact, there's hardly ever any audio, so I just I record that after the fact as I'm editing the footage altogether.

And as for this, Yeah, this okay might be something that I would show in an episode year as 19 thirties singer sewing machine.

As you can see him slowing down my movements and getting a little closer look of it and you never go.

That was it.

There might have been 89 seconds of footage there that I would put on an episode.

And obviously, you need a lot of little shots like that to put together a full, you know, 10 to 15 minute thing and always look at the media and what not?

And there's just nothing here.

None of this right here would make it into an episode because there's just nothing noteworthy whatsoever.

So, yeah, this, uh, this full, like, four minute trip to this store inside the store was four minutes.

Anyway, um is pretty much fruitless.

I might have a few seconds of footage from, you know, this this day's visit, and then, you know, at the end, I like to check in the glass case here and there we go, there's a couple copies of Sky Room or No, a copyist guy.

Roman Elder Scrolls online.

You know, I might show that, but I might not because, you know, whatever it is just just more modern games.

Yeah, it's That's it.

That's a typical thrift ing visit.

It's not very exciting.

And that is why it takes a long time to put together an episode 90% of the time I visit 1/3 store.

I find nothing whatsoever that I am interested in buying a little more often than that.

I will find something to show on camera, maybe one or two things per visit, but typically like a Nen tire afternoon of thrift ing going around four or five stores.

And I might get about 30 to 45 seconds of good footage if I'm lucky.

So, yeah, that's how the episodes come together.

It's just an awful lot of selective editing to turn it into something that is worth watching.

And that's how everything is made as far as L.

D R goes, you know, I mean odd wear episodes.

They can sometimes take weeks or a month or two to put together a CZ Well, because I'm just working on finding different components and film it at different times and try to put on the same clothes in between shots.

So, you know, you just try to make it work because these things you can't really plan them.

And that's sort of the downside and the appeal of doing more reality type content.

That's just sort of held together by sticks and string and duct tape and YouTube ing for you.

Hopefully, nothing's ruined because I'm sure someone's gonna say all the magic is ruined.

I can't watch anymore, huh?

Like when I showed that I filmed some things in a storage unit.

All man.

Sorry.

But anyway, that's enough of a ramble for right now.

I hope you have a good day and thank you very much for watching normal algae.

Our stuff will be popping back up here in a couple of days.