Okay…
The way he expressed it, it looked like his very own opinion, sorry @RyuuzakiJulio if I was wrong there.
Problem is, I’ve heard all my life that I just do stuff to “feel different”, all while already being excluded by big parts of society, that I’m seriously pissed by such sentences by now.
I mean, it’s the same logic as saying “you just fuck men (as a man…) to feel gay”. 
True. Now I’m wondering how many of us have always been weird to begin with?
That’s a weird point of view. Adding functionality sounds like the opposite of mutilation, especially when it doesn’t involve replacing existing body parts.
Sure, some people might hate the idea of having a hard object under the skin, and/or hate needles. But still…
Just remember as weird and tech oriented as Japan is, It’s still an extremely conservative culture.
Thanks @amal , your latest video (middle PCB board) it answer something I’ve been wondering for a while 
Problem is that they’ve said before they don’t do videos if there is someone outside LMG able to influence the direction of the video. You can ask them and see what they say but I would say high chance from what Linus has said before that they wouldn’t allow Amal to have any control over the direction of the video.
I’m not saying that their stance on this is good or bad, that’s just what they’ve said before.
Maybe direction was a bad word to use…
I would like to see Amal on site, possibly doing the install (if he still does that… I know legal can change over the years)
But I’d like to see the “expert” there to address questions comments and concerns
However they want to direct video is on them
That makes a lot more sense. They sometimes do videos with people like Wendel, or ElectroBoom, or other such collaborations in a way. Those ones are usually less scripted but effectively the LMG team has a rough script and a bunch of talking points and structure, and then just freeform talk about the subject matter.
And if the video was about Linus actually getting the implants, or any of the team members being implanted, then of course they would want to put it in a positive light in order to promote something they are buying into.
Just in case anyone was curious…
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To be clear, the watch hours requirement is clearly a 12 month sliding window, so the number may dip below the requirement any given day without constant upward progress. I will continue trying to make public video content on a regular basis so as to feed the beast 
… I think my next video will be a public Q/A based on some of the questions asked above.
Hmm, hopefully Step 3 doesn’t cause an issue, especially with the install videos (or the numbing gel one where you cut your arm).
YouTube’s monetization policies are absurd.
Agree… but maybe just those specific videos will be demonetized?
I know that’s how it works once you’re approved as a partner, but if they’re trying to review the channel as a whole, I’m worried it might throw up a red flag. It looks like they’re very vague in their criteria:
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Who knows what they consider a “significant portion”.
Yeah… YouTubes “reviewers” are about as much human as I am robot
WHOO!
^^ Sorry to leave it like that. I started my sentence with “I feel” to imply that this was of course my own personal opinion based on my poor exposure to every single culture around the world and not as an irrefutable rule.
The idea of the comment here was the wish of many of us to utilize our implants for more things than (I say it lightly) “party tricks” in real life scenarios, I’m talking about official identifications, payments, certificates, vehicles and transportation that is actually integrated by default with our implants and that having an implant doesn’t mean you are “one of those” but “one of all”. The “normalization” as in to make it a standard and widely accepted procedure as opposite to DIY projects or “hacks” to make them somewhat our implants compatible with a few things in a very small scale.
Is not about how doing “modifications” to your physiology makes you feel or if you do this modifications because you feel in a certain way.
If implants become as common as ear piercings, or circumcision (on some cultures), then people that “feels different” might not choose to do what for everyone else is a normal, common and expected procedure, can’t speak for everyone at all. The variety of opinions is extremely wide across the globe.
@amal is right, I speak from living AND promoting microchip implants in humans in a culture where as we all know 出る釘は打たれる “The nail that sticks out gets hammered down” and where even tattoos are very commonly still stigmatized in plain 2021. So forgive me if I didn’t phrase my comment appropriately and made you feel upset.
I am all in for modifying any part of our body as we wish, I wish I can change my height, weight, hair color, eye color, skin color, stamina, strength with just the push of a button to reflect the wide set of physical characteristics as I feel at that moment just like we do in avatars inside the metaverse of virtual reality.
I already knew it had been a 12-month sliding scale. I just wasn’t sure if that was still the way they did it. Content is king, and they want those watch hours because that’s how they make their money.
We’re going to need lots of new video ideas. Should we have a public thread for video idea suggestions, perhaps? Is there anybody who might be interested in aiding in the video-making process?
~ Jamie
No problem, it’s all okay.
I agree with the statement that implants should become a lot more “normal” in general - especially because this will open up a wide field of possible applications, simply because there would be a lot more customers if stuff would be more widely accepted.
For bodmods, it’s a whole different thing in my opinion. It led to some problems that, for example, earrings are “normal” by now - like people getting their babies pierced or people getting mods without wasting a second thought on the background. Plus, a big industry with streamlined products that slowly pushes away smaller companies. I personally just don’t like that, but I know there are (lots of) other opinions on that. So I guess we just agree to disagree on that 
But, if that’s okay, I’ve got a question about Japan - I know it is very conservative, I know about the tattoo-ban in most bath houses and all that, but I also know about incredible tattoo masters from there, and about massive fetish-/BDSM-/bodmod-parties as well. For me, it feels like a huge gap either between parts of the society or between the “daylight” attitude of people and their “private” life - can you explain that a bit, if it’s not too much of a derail?
Speaking with only 2 .months of experience living in Japan in the 90s on an extended visit… in short, I’ve noticed that the Japanese are human beings. Human beings are somewhat silly, and come in different shades and packages, but their inner workings are pretty much the same. I’ve also noticed that when humans get together and make up rules for how to live, things get even crazier. One thing I’ve noticed is that as those public rules for the group get more and more oppressive, the private rules that humans apply to themselves get more and more accommodating… generally speaking of course.
