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Broadcast Static is a video game Analysis Channel run by Noah Caldwell-Gervais, where he uploads in-depth critiques and retrospectives of popular and obscure video game franchises and individual video games. Noah (then a 24-year-old pizza cook from Seattle) hit YouTube in February 2013 with an hour-long retrospective of the Fallout series, and garnered enough renown to start a highly successful Patreon campaign in January 2015. By late 2016, he was earning enough money through crowdfunding to quit his day job entirely and to pursue his lifelong dream of traveling around the Western United States (or "playtesting adventure", as he had dubbed it) at his leisure. He finally got to fulfill that dream, journeying from Seattle through California, Texas, the Great Lakes, and back to Seattle between February and October 2017 in an old VW Bus with his wife and their dog.Noah's critiques are notoriously lengthy, with his retrospective of the Neverwinter Nights series clocking in at well over 3 hours, however, their depth and conciseness more than make up for it. He usually publishes one game-related video every month, but had also briefly branched out into the Travelogue Show genre in 2017, tackling this classic genre from his unique, gaming-influenced perspective. A sorted list of his videos can be found on our Recap page. | |
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Artifact Title: Noah hasn't actively used "Broadcast Static" as his channel's title in years and nowadays seems to prefer simply branding his videos with his own name instead. | |
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Stylistic Suck | |
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Stylistic Suck: Many of his videos open with a shot of some random items arranged to invoke the subject of the video and a sheet of paper with the title written on it, with some thematically appropriate music playing (in bad quality) in the background. This was originally owed to the fact that Noah had produced his videos on literally No Budget, but has since become a kind of a Signature Shot for him. | |
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Viewers Are Geniuses | |
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Viewers Are Geniuses: As mentioned, Noah's analyses are extremely in-depth, and he often quotes books and authors most people haven't even heard of (such as William Least Heat-Moon and his qouz). It is usually quite worth it to rewatch his videos once or twice to catch all of the references. | |
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Armor-Piercing Question | |
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Armor-Piercing Question: Noah often uses his video game critiques to reflect on Real Life, as well, and when he doesn't have a good answer, he instead puts it into a question that strips the issue down to its very core and lets the audience ponder it with him (see the Quotes tab for some examples). | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Noah's narration is generally very even and factual, so on the occasions where he allows himself to sneak in a snark (usually directed at video game developers, publishers, or political figures), it often takes a second or two to register with the viewers. | |
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Story Breadcrumbs: You can piece together a good chunk of Noah's biography from the passing mentions of individual events in his life scattered throughout his videos, particularly his critiques of Depression Quest, Jalopy!, and (surprisingly) Postal, as well as the assorted real life and Patreon announcements and, of course, his travelogues. | |
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So What Do We Do Now? | |
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So What Do We Do Now?: Noah discusses this at length in the ending segment of "The Other Half of the West". Upon coming home from the trip and thus realizing his biggest dream at the age of 29, he fell into a month-long slump and needed a ton of introspection to crawl back out of it. | |
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Travelogue Show: Noah was able to briefly branch out into the genre after taking his show "on the road" in 2017, producing a trilogy of videos he has since referred to as the "Triptych". He is particularly inspired by William Least Heat-Moon's books, and draws intentional parallels between Least Heat-Moon's concept of quoz (basically, any unexpected interesting things one discovers off the beaten path while traveling) and the way Wide Open Sandbox games like The Elder Scrolls structure their content. In "The Desert Bus", he brings up many quoz from his own travels that were functionally identical to encounters in Skyrim and concludes that the infamous joke game Desert Bus had been fundamentally wrong in its conception of Real Life travel as a boring chore and that realistic travel is much more akin to a densely-packed open world game instead. | |
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Analysis Channel: The channel's backbone are Noah's extensive critiques of individual video games and entire franchises, primarily Action and Horror Video Games, as well as classic Western RPGs and Immersive Sims. | |
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Nerd | |
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Nerd: Noah, by all accounts, is a very intelligent, socially isolated person who likes playing video games and discussing them at length. Although he has never completed a formal higher education, his analyses are often more incisive and accessible than most academic studies. | |
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Shoo Out the Clowns | |
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Shoo Out the Clowns: Early on, Noah tried to lighten up his videos with jokes here and there, but these were very hit-and-miss, and after realizing that "being funny" is not a requirement for a good critique, he dropped them altogether. | |
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