so uh can you do the intro then can you do that for me please
all right we'll do the intro together hello everyone my name is brett and
sometimes i wear a beret and this is luca luca is a three and a half year old corgi
mix he's a big fluffy boy you call him a teddy bear mix yeah he's sleepy
at the same time he's very needy so he wants to be here and also doesn't want to be here say hi luca
luca recently joined our family and he has been a lot he is the most wonderful boy ever we love
him so much but he's uh he's a lot to take care of at the same time corgis have energy he needs
his attention as well he's a very needy boy so i've been giving him a lot of that attention and
as a result i haven't been doing as many videos you may have noticed in the past couple of months
luca is only one of a few things that have happened in my life recently that i think are
worth talking about on the channel i don't talk about all my personal life things on the channel
but this one is somewhat relevant not that it matters too much to you guys but um a little
bit to me at the end of last year early this year i got engaged i guess six months ago at this point
that feels a lot more recent that's why i mentioned it oh well now you know again i
usually don't talk about all those personal details here but it's relevant to what i'm
about to say next channel updates are usually not so important for me unless it's a major thing and
in this case the the major thing is not that this guy exists and he's falling asleep in my arms
he's so cute uh oh he didn't like that now he's just sitting in my lap i'm moving i'm moving again
i move a lot if you've watched my channel over the past five years you've probably noticed that
i've changed my location one or two or five times and it's fine they've all been for good reasons
they've all been also across the pacific northwest this one's a little bit different i'm actually
moving south i'm leaving the state that's right guys the channel has done so well that
i'm moving to la to start my youtube career are you excited luca we're gonna be youtube
famous that's a joke by the way i am moving to southern california not la a little bit further
and no it's not for youtube but we are moving very soon um as of recording this video like in a week
so i'm not going to be making any videos in june if this is posted in june well that's
the only one then i'm going to need a little bit of a break so that i can actually move in
oh sorry move out move in get established and then we'll go from there it is also a good move we're
moving for my partner's work very exciting for her and i'm in a position now where i'm able to move
and work more remotely in my current job so that's a very fortunate thing that i'm able to do
and it's going to be very fortunate for him as well who's still falling asleep in my arms because
he can also work from home what a lucky guy are you lucky no you're luca that's who you are
nope nope still sleepy my channel wouldn't be here without a lot of my friends in the area i wouldn't
be making videos if it hadn't been for watching other people make videos from this exact area so
it is very bittersweet to say the least to leave them here but i also will say it's not goodbye
forever i very much have plans to come back in the near future whether it's this year whether it's
years down the road um i'm not necessarily moving permanently it's just that's what's happening now
so i i will miss our games very much and i'm happy to say that this past may i got to attend a lot of
games and see some people that i didn't get to see from before the pandemic so it feels like
it's been a real long time because it has but it was really good to see our games coming back in
full swing look forward to seeing footage from other people's perspective in the future from
our pacific northwest nerf club and any other nerf clubs that pop up whether it be like in washington
or my fellow oregonians continue to make some awesome memories and i look forward to coming
back up here and attending when possible but i'll miss you i'm going to miss all of you
whether you're a regular or i literally met you for the first time this past month um you guys are
the reason that our games are so much fun and the reason why other people from across the darn world
talk about our local scene you are the reason so keep being awesome keep making some awesome
builds and keep coming out and showing how awesome things can be as far as videos recently i haven't
exactly had like a crisis in what my content is but i've definitely had moments where i'm like
do people want this is this what people want on my channel luca is this what people want
he doesn't care i don't know always what my core audience likes
so if you continue to bear with me i promise you i will continue to make good videos
sometimes i will try my best not to waste your time because i do put effort into my
stuff and hopefully that's come through over the years at the very least i've come to expect
a certain level out of my own production because i do expect that i will spend some hours editing
i've tried to improve my process over the years i've tried to improve my quality a little bit here
and there but i've just branched out so far that sometimes i wonder what do people want out of my
channel what do people expect out of the beret youtube channel it's a very weird position i've
gotten myself into and if i can for a second just talk about a few specific types of videos
the ones that will never be made and these are my apologies the things i was going to try and
get to before i left that i don't think i'm going to the number one is kind of sad but here it goes
guys the adventure force slash walmart thunder tank i know i'm sorry i wasn't me pulling your leg
i didn't mean to lead you on because i really thought this was going to happen the update to
my previous update video is that adventure force did reach out they did contact me and they got
some information from me and they said they were going to pass it off to the manufacturer but
i never heard back from the manufacturer and by the time i thought maybe i would reach back again
i found out we were moving and this whole moving thing has happened very quickly so
i realize it's just not going to make sense at this time could something work out down the road
perhaps but right now i'm just gonna say it's not gonna happen so you can stop pestering adventure
force if you've still been doing that because it's it's it's my fault sure let's go with that
another one uh in the interim while i was waiting for that thunder tank correspondence i bought
myself a nerf scooter i bought it discounted don't worry did not pay 120 bucks for that thing
the box is up in a corner right now but i did use it recently i used it in the game
i used it in its proper form i used it detached from its scooter form and i used it as a gravity
hammer over my shoulder and then whacked some people with it i'm joking i would never do that
that is way too heavy and that is assault don't actually do that people but it does does have some
heft to it i didn't record any footage with that because i'm smart also it was tricky to record
footage with that but it did record an initial unboxing and then nothing else so i think i'm
going to have to scrap that video because i also no longer have the nerf scooter very sad the lonks
i teased that one on instagram the double-barreled links from orion blasters that was made for me by
silver fox industries or i should say they loaned it to me because they have one functional version
we had a few tweaks after using it a little bit it would probably be needed for an actual version
and i did use it in a game at least once i got some footage with it which didn't come out very
well because you couldn't see it and i had a couple hiccups where i was misusing the blaster
because it is still sort of a prototype so i never actually got around to recording real footage of
it nor did i make any actual video about it so you're probably not going to see a longs
video from me also because similar to the previous blaster it's back with its rightful owners and uh
now ryan and jesse can figure out what they want to do with that one-off prototype blaster
sorry about that but also i don't think it's got any plans on becoming an actual release
you'll have to look into like a double double barrel second degree burn from captain slug
captain slug is also on hiatus never mind i've been offloading quite a few blasters recently
as well so if you've been wondering like where's the video on this i might not have it part of that
is the move and other part is just downscaling in general i've realized where my limit is on blaster
collecting and sometimes you just gotta scale back and it sucks it sucks to sell off some things that
have more sentimental value but you also don't need everything so that's what's got to happen
are you ready buddy you ready to go down three two one big jump okay thank you there are still
things i have that i would like to make videos about maybe even one thing in this video right
now that you can see like i said it's going to be a minutes before i do that and i'm still looking
at picking up some blasters in the future but i am really trying to scale back on how much i
purchased just random crap from nerf because i end up not using a lot of it and there is absolutely
no point in me collecting for the point of collecting when i'm still going to just be
in a small apartment it doesn't work for me some people can do it i can't nothing against them
i don't know their budget i don't know their space constraints i know mine and that's what
i've got to play too other things on video stuff i think like people will ask where the bert videos
they come in time you can't just mass produce those they got to come from the sorry not the
mind from the heart that's where they got to come from i've enjoyed doing like the vlogs like when
i traveled to new jersey recently that was a fun thing to do even if it took many many hours if i
didn't enjoy it i wouldn't make it trust me the monetary payoff is non-existent compared to what
the satisfaction i have when i re-watch it and i'm like damn that was a good trip i'm so glad i
documented it so that's why i make some stuff like that wikihow and i'd run that in a war have been
asked about here and there because they have been my previous very popular series and i've very much
left them behind up to this point not on like the chopping block per se but they've been mothballed
and i think they're going to kind of stay that way in the meantime because in the case of wikihow
i do want to make more things like that i do some reactions to silly articles but wikihow is
very specific and you know there's only so far you can go with those and i also just want to
branch out into other categories but wikihow like the name sits on a very high pedestal for me so
i'm almost afraid to even tackle it so we'll get to it i'm sure and then i run that in a war is a
completely different beast where you need constant games to do that you need constant regular games
where i can have so many blasters at my disposal to choose from and then other people get to choose
and there's a whole process and i do enjoy it i i've loved doing those in the past it's why
i have 20 plus episodes of that series but it's so so different when you take a break from games for
like a year and a half at least and then it's just a relief to play with blasters again that
the priority on like letting other people choose my loadout it's very low in comparison
but it is fun so i'm not saying it will never come back maybe it'll come back in a modified
form but i also said that two years ago i like to post gameplay footage i like to post reviews
i like to post commentary videos that's been a popular one for me to work on recently where i
add a little bit of my insight make some jokes and then we call it a day whatever you prefer on my
channel i will try my best to continue doing it i like to experiment with different styles i like to
improve on my editing and that's one way to do it shorts are another example of that i cannot deny
shorts because if it weren't for shorts i would not actually have the current following i do on
youtube because this time last year my channel went a lot crazier because of those shorts
but i promise to not flood your inbox or your subscription feed with shorts you're welcome for
that but i typically also post my shorts on tiktok so if you're there you can go and watch those i
will continue to make videos because i like making videos it'll take a little bit more time as i get
used to my new space i'll probably make some sort of new backdrop but in the meantime i will also
be following things on instagram what people are posting on youtube here and there just uh just
know i'm out there i'm laughing at my sleeping dog off screen and i'm also just incredibly thankful
incredibly thankful to you guys for continuing to support my channel whether it be this year
or all the years leading up to this point you are the reason that i continue to do this
and you're the reason why i will continue to make videos uh for years to come most likely as long as
i can i probably will and thank you everyone so much for watching i need i need to pack this up
thanks for the whiteout long strike jose