**The Importance of Family and Relationships**

In this AMA (Ask Me Anything) video, Brandon shares his thoughts on family and relationships, which is a topic that resonates deeply with him. He emphasizes the importance of spending time with one's family and how it shapes who we are as individuals. According to Brandon, fighting with loved ones is a normal part of any relationship, and it helps us figure out each other's flaws and avoid making mistakes in the future.

Brandon attributes his close bond with his family to being a family-oriented person, which he believes is essential for building strong relationships. He shares stories about his own experiences with his parents and siblings, highlighting how they have always been supportive of him and encouraged him to spend time with them. Brandon's love for camping and other outdoor activities with his family is evident in the way he describes these moments as a source of joy and closeness.

One of the most poignant aspects of this conversation is when Brandon talks about the importance of prioritizing family. He expresses his dread at the thought of losing one or both of his parents, highlighting how much they mean to him. He believes that spending quality time with loved ones should be a priority in life, as it's something that can't be taken away once it's lost.

Brandon also addresses the topic of online criticism and judgment from strangers, particularly when it comes to family-related issues. He expresses his frustration at seeing people dissing him simply because they don't understand or agree with his choices. He encourages those who do so to reflect on their own actions and consider how they would feel if someone criticized them.

**The Power of Family Traditions**

Brandon's love for family traditions is evident in the way he describes his Christmas celebrations. He shares stories about his childhood Christmases, highlighting how these traditions have brought him joy and closeness with his family over the years. Brandon believes that having unique family traditions is what makes life interesting and gives people a sense of purpose.

He notes that some people might view his Christmas traditions as unusual or quirky, but for him, they're a source of happiness and connection to his loved ones. Brandon's enthusiasm for these traditions is contagious, and he encourages others to find their own unique ways of celebrating special occasions with their families.

**The Value of Prioritizing Family**

Throughout this conversation, Brandon emphasizes the importance of prioritizing family in one's life. He believes that spending quality time with loved ones should be a top priority, as it's something that can't be taken away once it's lost. Brandon encourages others to take note of what they value most in their relationships and make time for it.

By sharing his own experiences and insights, Brandon hopes to inspire others to reevaluate their priorities and make family a central part of their lives. He acknowledges that this might not be easy or straightforward, but he believes that the benefits are well worth the effort.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys where you David Franco here from David def franco.com as well as twitter.com David DeFranco follow me my link is right below now I emphasize that because today's video wouldn't be possible without that well unless I posted my ask me anything requests on Facebook or Instagram or Google+ or L who the freak uses L but seriously guys welcome to another ask me anything video it's actually been quite a while since I've done my last one which was I believe like a week or so before Christmas so let's jump right into it because I have 16 questions to get through from you guys so let's begin if I can slide to unlock question number one comes from batsman is it the real Batman it might be U Apple Fanboy for Li LIF I guess he ran out of characters but hey he's an Apple fan so he's okay with me anyway Apple Fanboy for life says will you ever collab with Barnacle or Chris Perlo it would be totally awesome and epic thanks maybe one day I mean I hope to perhaps at some kind of event like gnome decks I hear Chris is rebooting gnome decks so perhaps I'll go to that sometime in the near future or maybe even CES one year you never know I'm young so I have plenty of time next question comes from Rik Hussein also known as Fox Trot 4978 and Ric says what is the weirdest website you've ever designed okay now this one's a bit more tough to answer I've created a lot of websites and while nowadays I'm actually a lot more focused on the websites that matter such as brand rocket Squarespace Summit ad for.com I'm going to kind of do a reboot of that in the near future as well as the Franco gaming.com but easily my biggest Focus nowadays is brand rocket.com but going back quite a while maybe like 2008 2009 there was a website called Stellar adverts.ie you that means you've been around for the Long Haul so thank you and yes Mr banther I'm thinking to you right now cuz I know you're like actually one of the only two or three people that enjoyed that site so I guess Stellar adverts was kind of my weirdest site it's like ad for five.com but instead of buying a little block you buy a star hence the name Stellar adverts.ie plug yourube.com I don't know if any of you recall that if you do comment right below Kudos if you do all right anyway getting to the next question comes from Don I think your n key got stuck at daore says have you gotten into Sons of Anarchy or a Game of Thrones yet no and no and I'm ashamed to say that because I'm definitely a media freak I watch a movie pretty much every night I'm always watching TV shows I'm still obsessed with the office and yes I still watch that pretty much every day of my life just watched it last night actually but in terms of Sons of Anarchy I've heard it's good and I actually talked to some random dude at Walmart one night while we were looking at the DVDs or Blu-Rays in this case and we were talking about TV shows like The Walking Dead Breaking Bad and whatever and yes I have seen breaking bed phenomenal show and well Sons of Anarchy naturally came up in the conversation and I think he said it was good so perhaps that's my next show in terms of the Game of Thrones I'm interested in watching it but for some reason I'm having trouble motivating myself to actually begin because I do have H should be go so I don't really have any excuses to not watch it so comment right below is the Game of Thrones something I would actually enjoy next question comes from water jamsen hopefully I said that right or water like water also known as theore zylon he says what's your view on the Apple watch because I saw a video of yours on your ideas of of an eyew watch did your opinion change my opinion is still pretty much the same I'm very interested in the Apple watch I'm just not convinced that it's for me yet because look at this the only thing I have my wrist is this Intel wristband which is now completely naked cuz I always wear my wristbands and eventually they just wear out but that's just my point I only have wristbands on me I've never been a watch person I might never be a watch person but I'm really really hoping the Apple watch can change that so we'll see moving on next question comes from from Brad Parkin Brad says why did you become so passionate about Apple and their products I think I'm passionate about Apple because they're excellent in design they have great marketing and great advertising and I just really admire the culture behind their products for instance if you explore apple.com today I guarantee you you'll come across at least a few inspirational videos regarding how Apple products have changed the world now some people may say well David that's dramatic nothing can really change the world in terms of technology and if you actually say that you are crazy in the head because things like this the iPad have dramatically changed the world especially in terms of education and the iPhone has forever changed the world the smartphone market would not be what it is today without the iPhone love or hate Apple you cannot deny that and finally the the Mac the Mac in general I am obsessed with Macs they it's a different feeling when you use OS 10 you feel at home I know that might sound kind of weird saying it out loud but I feel so much more comfortable using OS 10 than I do windows now with that said I use Windows 8 pretty much on a regular basis now with my HP stream 11 but it's still not as intuitive and dragon drop friendly as OS 10 is OS 10 it just works the way you want it to you know despite some bugs in yosity but still honestly yuse is probably one of my favorite os10 updates in a long time but anyway I I could talk about this forever I just love Apple I love the passion behind their products I love the culture I love their retail stores despite people saying that the retail stores would flop you're a flop but yeah apple they're doing great and they had their best quarter yet so they're not going away anytime soon next question comes from Grant Mentor also known as Grant 5560 what do you cherish most in your YouTube career probably the flexibility and the freedom that I have every single day I mean I could go to bed at 4:30 in the morning of which I did last night and I can wake up late now I don't wake up late because I'm lazy I wake up late because I stay up late doing my work for instance like I just said 4:30 in the morning last night I wasn't goofing off just having fun with video games I was working on my personal website redesign while enjoying a podcast from fronos photo you probably know who he is um so last night was very very productive so I guess what I enjoy most is my freedom doing what I want and doing it when I want and while finally doing it how I want I hate the idea of answering to other people I like doing things my way and I'm going to do that for as long as I possibly can awesome awesome question so thank you next question comes from Ahmed also known as Gmail KY no gazy I apologize either way they say why do you only use an iPhone why not Nexus or other smartphones I'm just not interested honestly I'm not interested and I know that's horrible coming from a tech reviewer I'm not a tech reviewer I'm a tech vlogger I just don't care I don't care what Android has to offer I really don't care even what Windows phone has to offer my iPhone and my iPad they work well enough and I love the integration from IOS into OS 10 and vice versa I'm extremely happy with the Apple ecosystem so I really have no reason to look elsewhere that sounds cocky and arrogant of me but it's the truth I'm never really afraid to speak my mind there's just nothing out there that honestly interests me but still great question all right this next question comes from Ashley Ashley likes circles it seems Ashley from twitter.com supporting Roman and they say would you be willing to eat a bowl of crickets for $40,000 something just happened in my living room yes because apparently it's common in San Francisco and yes I've actually researched that before it's very interesting that people actually enjoy crickets and apparently they're pretty good and nutritious so for $40,000 hell yeah I mean if I can pay off my student loans in one shot then why not give me some crickets I didn't mean literally like give me the crickets sound I meant like give me the food version of crickets come on Nolan hater you're up next also known as twitter.com Nolan hater good job David Nolan says are you addicted to pegle too if so what level are you dude I beat pegle 2 so I guess you could say I'm a proud pegal 2 addict I mean I haven't played it in at least a week because I've been putting more time into well my work but if I have some free time I usually play Far Cry 4 I'm trying to get through that campaign so I can focus on my other games but yes pegle 2 I put a lot of time into I beat all the levels I didn't beat all the optional objectives but I did beat all the levels and all the main objectives including the DLC the DLC was just phenomenal easily worth like the $3 each I paid or whatever it was but in my opinion easily worth at least $5 each so awesome game and if you appreciate physics like I do definitely check it out Matthew muscle white says well first of all twitter.com MJ muscle whes 88 Matthew says any advice to aspiring Freelancers Now by Freelancers I'm assuming you mean like in any kind of creative field whether you're doing video production graphic design photography or even like blogging because while blogging is kind of like a freelance Market because you're doing it on your own and it's your own time and you could blog for others and get paid for it but in terms of graphic design my best advice is just get started put yourself out there start out affordable but don't go too low just go low enough where it seems like you're experienced and I'm sure you are but we can always gain more experience then through that experience you can get clients on board because honestly I started my graphic design career and I don't really do that much nowadays I'm more into video and I do my own websites and designs and whatever for myself but I started out by posting cheap ads on Craigslist yes Craigslist like a logo design for like 100 bucks which is very very very low by today's standards but hey it worked I got some designs on board for my portfolio which I haven't really ever made public for some reason just I don't know I just mainly work with web Graphics so the work you see on brand rocket.com and squares summon in in my in my personal website that's my portfolio right there because I'm mostly designing websites nowadays uh with platforms like Squarespace and WordPress I mean they give me the tools I just got to build things with those tools so that's mostly what I'm involved in nowadays but my best advice just get started start affordable and just advertise yourself do not be afraid to Market your work and yourself in general because don't forget you are a brand and the stronger your brand can grow the more clients you will get on board it's only natural so good luck Matthew and I hope this advice helps next question comes from if I can freaking swi Anthony managon Anthony is an awesome supporter of mine he's always tweeting me he's always liking my videos so Anthony thank you so much for everything and he can be found at uh twitter.com redoxs 2009 and Anthony says what is one thing you'd like to see in the next Mac Pro update great question and honestly the first thing that always comes to mind is more USB ports for some reason the Mac Pro doesn't have enough USB ports what's it have four I'm pretty sure it S4 but with that said it's honestly not a huge deal I don't find myself crying about it at night because I use an external USB hub and that does great and that's actually kind of more convenient because I can just plug in my um SD card adapters into the in front of my Hub rather than going behind my monitors behind my Mac Pro so more USB ports oh you know what one thing I would really really like to see is the option of customizing the Mac Pro shell I mean it's a beautiful piece of Hardware but sometimes I wish I could put like a transparent shell on it and yes I realize that concept has been made public not officially by Apple but some artists have rendered you know an actual clear shell for the Mac Pro and it looks freaking hot as hell so I'm hoping Apple eventually introduces official support for third party Mac Pro shells because as of right now it's not as easy as just making a shell there's actually some kind of sensor on there where the Mac Pro will not run unless something is activated on that shell because if you try to turn the Mac Pro on you know as it's nude it will not turn on so let's hope that happens someday but as of right now I am extremely happy with my Mac Pro it's running my three monitors beautifully and it just handles everything I do very well now I will say it needs more RAM but that's up to me I'm going to double its Ram because while I'm actually maxing that out on a daily basis yes every single day between Photoshop and Final Cup Pro 10 I'm finding myself um needing more RAM but great question Anthony I don't know why it doesn't say I follow you I thought I follow you on Twitter either way thank you all right next question comes from Christian sein over over at twitter.com cink Christian says David if you should say so yourself what is your biggest strength as a human being I guess my motivation and my ambition to succeed in this world and not really caring what others think I mean I may comment on hate here and there because I hate the dislike button it's one of the worst features ever invented in my opinion just it's freaking terrible because in my opinion it doesn't offer real feedback anyone who clicks the dislike button and they don't leave comment you're a coward and you're a waste of space in this world I know that's very very harsh but you need to check yourself so anyway my biggest strength is definitely my motivation and like I said my ambition to succeed and probably because I'm so energetic I mean I am extremely energetic I could get two to three hours of sleep and stay up for 24 hours the next day if I had to I mean look at Vegas I was up for 27 an hour straight practically besides passing out on the plane for like 2 minutes but that doesn't count so I guess a combination of all those traits but hey great question Christian I really appreciate it okay this next question comes from I'm really talking fast gendle Kenner over at twitter.com gvv mine gendle says where do you see the next generation of gaming going do you think VR or anything else will become more prominent virtual reality Lo looks very interesting but in my opinion it's never going to become the standard it's always going to be that kind of alternative way of playing something that's more fun but you kind of get tired of it after 30 minutes because me as a longtime gamer since I was only like two 3 years old whatever I want to do this I just want to chill and just have an actual physical controller in my hand and enjoy my games is that so hard and some people think that this is the last generation of actual video game consoles I have to completely disagree mark my words we will have an actual console for the next PlayStation and the next Xbox the next Nintendo console I don't know Nintendo is very very unpredictable which is actually kind of a good thing because they're the only company doing something truly unique with their console that's not to say that PS4 and Xbox One are bad cuz I love them to death I mean I've been playing them a lot more than I play my Wii U but anyway getting to the point reality I don't ever see it catching on I think of it as like watching uh you know movies and TV shows in 3D it's cool for like 30 minutes but after a while you're like what am I doing I just want to chill and enjoy what I'm watching like this I don't need anything on my face but don't get me wrong I'm very interested in VR technology just I don't see it becoming the norm that's all but excellent question Noah bundonis over at twit / Galactic Striker Noah says are you thinking of getting the new Nintendo 3DS XL perhaps it's a really really impressive upgrade and piece of technology in general it's just I don't play my current 3DS that much as it is I'm primarily a video game I mean a Home console gamer um but while I'm on the go like camping I'll bring my V my 3DS but but but as of right now I'm not that interested in owning one but perhaps I'll get one in the near future I'm outside more like camping or Seaside Heights so I don't know we'll see we'll see Brandon over at twitter.com br8 D4 on says how much preparation goes into making your weekly videos now by weekly I'm guessing you mean my weekend Vlog a few hours because my average weekend Vlog is about an hour long and importing that content oh hold on sorry about the language all right we good my T4i was flashing I was hitting the time limit well this is a very long AMA video my uh next one will definitely have to be shorter so the average weekend Vlog is about an hour long importing those clips usually about well usually at least 100 Clips every week takes like 10 minutes my Mac Pro Imports them like a balls and car just went by but the actual editing process takes at least a couple hours cuz I to I had to you know obviously watch it myself I had to splice cut edit all that stuff and then preview the Vlog which doesn't seem like hard work but when you're limited on time that night or or you know the next morning it gets pretty tight and sometimes you don't want to miss an error so you're kind of forced to watch the weekend Vlog hence my doing that every single week and then finally I upload it which takes about an hour or two depending on the size of a file and then of course YouTube has to process it which takes a while as it is so the whole process every week with everything combined I would say maybe 5 to 6 hours just you know hey I mean it's a lot of work but you guys seem to enjoy it and my patreon campaign really helps a lot because it just adds a lot of value to my weekly work so great question Brandon next question oh and actually the final question thank God cuz this one's really really long just this video in general comes from aliad over twitter.com aliad 1239 Ali says what gives your family such a close Bond and have there been any tense moments between your family well first of all of course there have been tense moments you know between me and my dad me and my mom me and Kristen and Kristen and my dad Kristen and my mom my mom and dad whatever because we're a family family's fight it's perfectly normal but in my opinion fighting is a good thing because it only makes your relationship with other people stronger you can figure out other people's flaws and you can avoid from making mistakes related to his flaws in the future it's no different than having a girlfriend or a boyfriend I mean it's perfectly normal to fight with them because people have their differences and if you're perfect all the time that just doesn't feel right I mean I know people like the idea of perfection but if you were truly honestly perfect with others life would be kind of dull but in terms of the first part of the question you said what gives your family such a close Bond we've just always been that way I'm I'm a very family oriented person which is why it blows my mind when I see people say oh you went to Vegas with your mom you go camping with your family well of course I do why wouldn't I spend time with those who took 18 19 years or so to raise me and form me into the person that I am today if you are truly like embarrassed or you're unable to hang out with your family and just have fun together I honestly feel bad for you you really need to get your family Mortals straight and you just need to you need to prioritize because this sounds downright depressing and morbid but one day my parents are going to be dead and I dread that day I can't even imagine a life without my mom or dad it's just it's so freaking sad to think about so if I'm not going to hang out with them today or next week or next month and God forbid they you know move on to demise I don't I'm I'm I'm trying to word this carefully in like 30 years and I'm there at their funeral one day saying I wish I would have spent more time with my family well it's too late then I don't get a second chance so obviously I'm going to spend time with them and I think that translates into our family in general we just love having fun together we love spending time together and that's why I love camping in the summer just spending time with my mom and dad and hunter pants and jaman it's fun family is extremely important to me not everybody can understand that because believe me I know I'm extremely lucky I'm extremely fortunate so I think sometimes those hate comments those people don't truly understand what they're saying because they can't understand what it's like to have a close family you know I mean I'm not trying to say that in a bad way it's just we're all different we're we're all we're all raised differently and well honestly that's that's that's kind of what makes life interesting and that's why I think a lot of people enjoy my Vlogs I mean I was just talking to some friends the other day on Facebook saying that they enjoy my Christmas videos because my Christmas traditions with you know my family are different than their Christmas traditions and then another friend said well their family's not as close um you know just just in general so that's why they enjoy my family Vlog so much and honestly that really means a lot to me so yeah that's all I'm trying to say you know what this is a huge huge topic and maybe I'll save this for another video because I've been meeting the kind of rant about this because I cannot stand when I see and I'm assuming it's kids I cannot stand when I see kids online dissing me simply because I like to spend time with my family like who the hell are you to judge so maybe one day I will make a video on that but anyway wow things got deep things got real deep and this is a freaking long AMA video but to everybody who was involved in this video thank you so much I really appreciate it and if you did make it to the end of this video please like that video right below it really does make a big difference and it shows that you actually watched the entire thing I'm trying to get these stats going I'm trying to find out who was actually enjoying my content so please if you can click that like button it goes a long way as always your support is much appreciated and I'll I see you in my next video peacehey guys where you David Franco here from David def franco.com as well as twitter.com David DeFranco follow me my link is right below now I emphasize that because today's video wouldn't be possible without that well unless I posted my ask me anything requests on Facebook or Instagram or Google+ or L who the freak uses L but seriously guys welcome to another ask me anything video it's actually been quite a while since I've done my last one which was I believe like a week or so before Christmas so let's jump right into it because I have 16 questions to get through from you guys so let's begin if I can slide to unlock question number one comes from batsman is it the real Batman it might be U Apple Fanboy for Li LIF I guess he ran out of characters but hey he's an Apple fan so he's okay with me anyway Apple Fanboy for life says will you ever collab with Barnacle or Chris Perlo it would be totally awesome and epic thanks maybe one day I mean I hope to perhaps at some kind of event like gnome decks I hear Chris is rebooting gnome decks so perhaps I'll go to that sometime in the near future or maybe even CES one year you never know I'm young so I have plenty of time next question comes from Rik Hussein also known as Fox Trot 4978 and Ric says what is the weirdest website you've ever designed okay now this one's a bit more tough to answer I've created a lot of websites and while nowadays I'm actually a lot more focused on the websites that matter such as brand rocket Squarespace Summit ad for.com I'm going to kind of do a reboot of that in the near future as well as the Franco gaming.com but easily my biggest Focus nowadays is brand rocket.com but going back quite a while maybe like 2008 2009 there was a website called Stellar adverts.ie you that means you've been around for the Long Haul so thank you and yes Mr banther I'm thinking to you right now cuz I know you're like actually one of the only two or three people that enjoyed that site so I guess Stellar adverts was kind of my weirdest site it's like ad for five.com but instead of buying a little block you buy a star hence the name Stellar adverts.ie plug yourube.com I don't know if any of you recall that if you do comment right below Kudos if you do all right anyway getting to the next question comes from Don I think your n key got stuck at daore says have you gotten into Sons of Anarchy or a Game of Thrones yet no and no and I'm ashamed to say that because I'm definitely a media freak I watch a movie pretty much every night I'm always watching TV shows I'm still obsessed with the office and yes I still watch that pretty much every day of my life just watched it last night actually but in terms of Sons of Anarchy I've heard it's good and I actually talked to some random dude at Walmart one night while we were looking at the DVDs or Blu-Rays in this case and we were talking about TV shows like The Walking Dead Breaking Bad and whatever and yes I have seen breaking bed phenomenal show and well Sons of Anarchy naturally came up in the conversation and I think he said it was good so perhaps that's my next show in terms of the Game of Thrones I'm interested in watching it but for some reason I'm having trouble motivating myself to actually begin because I do have H should be go so I don't really have any excuses to not watch it so comment right below is the Game of Thrones something I would actually enjoy next question comes from water jamsen hopefully I said that right or water like water also known as theore zylon he says what's your view on the Apple watch because I saw a video of yours on your ideas of of an eyew watch did your opinion change my opinion is still pretty much the same I'm very interested in the Apple watch I'm just not convinced that it's for me yet because look at this the only thing I have my wrist is this Intel wristband which is now completely naked cuz I always wear my wristbands and eventually they just wear out but that's just my point I only have wristbands on me I've never been a watch person I might never be a watch person but I'm really really hoping the Apple watch can change that so we'll see moving on next question comes from from Brad Parkin Brad says why did you become so passionate about Apple and their products I think I'm passionate about Apple because they're excellent in design they have great marketing and great advertising and I just really admire the culture behind their products for instance if you explore apple.com today I guarantee you you'll come across at least a few inspirational videos regarding how Apple products have changed the world now some people may say well David that's dramatic nothing can really change the world in terms of technology and if you actually say that you are crazy in the head because things like this the iPad have dramatically changed the world especially in terms of education and the iPhone has forever changed the world the smartphone market would not be what it is today without the iPhone love or hate Apple you cannot deny that and finally the the Mac the Mac in general I am obsessed with Macs they it's a different feeling when you use OS 10 you feel at home I know that might sound kind of weird saying it out loud but I feel so much more comfortable using OS 10 than I do windows now with that said I use Windows 8 pretty much on a regular basis now with my HP stream 11 but it's still not as intuitive and dragon drop friendly as OS 10 is OS 10 it just works the way you want it to you know despite some bugs in yosity but still honestly yuse is probably one of my favorite os10 updates in a long time but anyway I I could talk about this forever I just love Apple I love the passion behind their products I love the culture I love their retail stores despite people saying that the retail stores would flop you're a flop but yeah apple they're doing great and they had their best quarter yet so they're not going away anytime soon next question comes from Grant Mentor also known as Grant 5560 what do you cherish most in your YouTube career probably the flexibility and the freedom that I have every single day I mean I could go to bed at 4:30 in the morning of which I did last night and I can wake up late now I don't wake up late because I'm lazy I wake up late because I stay up late doing my work for instance like I just said 4:30 in the morning last night I wasn't goofing off just having fun with video games I was working on my personal website redesign while enjoying a podcast from fronos photo you probably know who he is um so last night was very very productive so I guess what I enjoy most is my freedom doing what I want and doing it when I want and while finally doing it how I want I hate the idea of answering to other people I like doing things my way and I'm going to do that for as long as I possibly can awesome awesome question so thank you next question comes from Ahmed also known as Gmail KY no gazy I apologize either way they say why do you only use an iPhone why not Nexus or other smartphones I'm just not interested honestly I'm not interested and I know that's horrible coming from a tech reviewer I'm not a tech reviewer I'm a tech vlogger I just don't care I don't care what Android has to offer I really don't care even what Windows phone has to offer my iPhone and my iPad they work well enough and I love the integration from IOS into OS 10 and vice versa I'm extremely happy with the Apple ecosystem so I really have no reason to look elsewhere that sounds cocky and arrogant of me but it's the truth I'm never really afraid to speak my mind there's just nothing out there that honestly interests me but still great question all right this next question comes from Ashley Ashley likes circles it seems Ashley from twitter.com supporting Roman and they say would you be willing to eat a bowl of crickets for $40,000 something just happened in my living room yes because apparently it's common in San Francisco and yes I've actually researched that before it's very interesting that people actually enjoy crickets and apparently they're pretty good and nutritious so for $40,000 hell yeah I mean if I can pay off my student loans in one shot then why not give me some crickets I didn't mean literally like give me the crickets sound I meant like give me the food version of crickets come on Nolan hater you're up next also known as twitter.com Nolan hater good job David Nolan says are you addicted to pegle too if so what level are you dude I beat pegle 2 so I guess you could say I'm a proud pegal 2 addict I mean I haven't played it in at least a week because I've been putting more time into well my work but if I have some free time I usually play Far Cry 4 I'm trying to get through that campaign so I can focus on my other games but yes pegle 2 I put a lot of time into I beat all the levels I didn't beat all the optional objectives but I did beat all the levels and all the main objectives including the DLC the DLC was just phenomenal easily worth like the $3 each I paid or whatever it was but in my opinion easily worth at least $5 each so awesome game and if you appreciate physics like I do definitely check it out Matthew muscle white says well first of all twitter.com MJ muscle whes 88 Matthew says any advice to aspiring Freelancers Now by Freelancers I'm assuming you mean like in any kind of creative field whether you're doing video production graphic design photography or even like blogging because while blogging is kind of like a freelance Market because you're doing it on your own and it's your own time and you could blog for others and get paid for it but in terms of graphic design my best advice is just get started put yourself out there start out affordable but don't go too low just go low enough where it seems like you're experienced and I'm sure you are but we can always gain more experience then through that experience you can get clients on board because honestly I started my graphic design career and I don't really do that much nowadays I'm more into video and I do my own websites and designs and whatever for myself but I started out by posting cheap ads on Craigslist yes Craigslist like a logo design for like 100 bucks which is very very very low by today's standards but hey it worked I got some designs on board for my portfolio which I haven't really ever made public for some reason just I don't know I just mainly work with web Graphics so the work you see on brand rocket.com and squares summon in in my in my personal website that's my portfolio right there because I'm mostly designing websites nowadays uh with platforms like Squarespace and WordPress I mean they give me the tools I just got to build things with those tools so that's mostly what I'm involved in nowadays but my best advice just get started start affordable and just advertise yourself do not be afraid to Market your work and yourself in general because don't forget you are a brand and the stronger your brand can grow the more clients you will get on board it's only natural so good luck Matthew and I hope this advice helps next question comes from if I can freaking swi Anthony managon Anthony is an awesome supporter of mine he's always tweeting me he's always liking my videos so Anthony thank you so much for everything and he can be found at uh twitter.com redoxs 2009 and Anthony says what is one thing you'd like to see in the next Mac Pro update great question and honestly the first thing that always comes to mind is more USB ports for some reason the Mac Pro doesn't have enough USB ports what's it have four I'm pretty sure it S4 but with that said it's honestly not a huge deal I don't find myself crying about it at night because I use an external USB hub and that does great and that's actually kind of more convenient because I can just plug in my um SD card adapters into the in front of my Hub rather than going behind my monitors behind my Mac Pro so more USB ports oh you know what one thing I would really really like to see is the option of customizing the Mac Pro shell I mean it's a beautiful piece of Hardware but sometimes I wish I could put like a transparent shell on it and yes I realize that concept has been made public not officially by Apple but some artists have rendered you know an actual clear shell for the Mac Pro and it looks freaking hot as hell so I'm hoping Apple eventually introduces official support for third party Mac Pro shells because as of right now it's not as easy as just making a shell there's actually some kind of sensor on there where the Mac Pro will not run unless something is activated on that shell because if you try to turn the Mac Pro on you know as it's nude it will not turn on so let's hope that happens someday but as of right now I am extremely happy with my Mac Pro it's running my three monitors beautifully and it just handles everything I do very well now I will say it needs more RAM but that's up to me I'm going to double its Ram because while I'm actually maxing that out on a daily basis yes every single day between Photoshop and Final Cup Pro 10 I'm finding myself um needing more RAM but great question Anthony I don't know why it doesn't say I follow you I thought I follow you on Twitter either way thank you all right next question comes from Christian sein over over at twitter.com cink Christian says David if you should say so yourself what is your biggest strength as a human being I guess my motivation and my ambition to succeed in this world and not really caring what others think I mean I may comment on hate here and there because I hate the dislike button it's one of the worst features ever invented in my opinion just it's freaking terrible because in my opinion it doesn't offer real feedback anyone who clicks the dislike button and they don't leave comment you're a coward and you're a waste of space in this world I know that's very very harsh but you need to check yourself so anyway my biggest strength is definitely my motivation and like I said my ambition to succeed and probably because I'm so energetic I mean I am extremely energetic I could get two to three hours of sleep and stay up for 24 hours the next day if I had to I mean look at Vegas I was up for 27 an hour straight practically besides passing out on the plane for like 2 minutes but that doesn't count so I guess a combination of all those traits but hey great question Christian I really appreciate it okay this next question comes from I'm really talking fast gendle Kenner over at twitter.com gvv mine gendle says where do you see the next generation of gaming going do you think VR or anything else will become more prominent virtual reality Lo looks very interesting but in my opinion it's never going to become the standard it's always going to be that kind of alternative way of playing something that's more fun but you kind of get tired of it after 30 minutes because me as a longtime gamer since I was only like two 3 years old whatever I want to do this I just want to chill and just have an actual physical controller in my hand and enjoy my games is that so hard and some people think that this is the last generation of actual video game consoles I have to completely disagree mark my words we will have an actual console for the next PlayStation and the next Xbox the next Nintendo console I don't know Nintendo is very very unpredictable which is actually kind of a good thing because they're the only company doing something truly unique with their console that's not to say that PS4 and Xbox One are bad cuz I love them to death I mean I've been playing them a lot more than I play my Wii U but anyway getting to the point reality I don't ever see it catching on I think of it as like watching uh you know movies and TV shows in 3D it's cool for like 30 minutes but after a while you're like what am I doing I just want to chill and enjoy what I'm watching like this I don't need anything on my face but don't get me wrong I'm very interested in VR technology just I don't see it becoming the norm that's all but excellent question Noah bundonis over at twit / Galactic Striker Noah says are you thinking of getting the new Nintendo 3DS XL perhaps it's a really really impressive upgrade and piece of technology in general it's just I don't play my current 3DS that much as it is I'm primarily a video game I mean a Home console gamer um but while I'm on the go like camping I'll bring my V my 3DS but but but as of right now I'm not that interested in owning one but perhaps I'll get one in the near future I'm outside more like camping or Seaside Heights so I don't know we'll see we'll see Brandon over at twitter.com br8 D4 on says how much preparation goes into making your weekly videos now by weekly I'm guessing you mean my weekend Vlog a few hours because my average weekend Vlog is about an hour long and importing that content oh hold on sorry about the language all right we good my T4i was flashing I was hitting the time limit well this is a very long AMA video my uh next one will definitely have to be shorter so the average weekend Vlog is about an hour long importing those clips usually about well usually at least 100 Clips every week takes like 10 minutes my Mac Pro Imports them like a balls and car just went by but the actual editing process takes at least a couple hours cuz I to I had to you know obviously watch it myself I had to splice cut edit all that stuff and then preview the Vlog which doesn't seem like hard work but when you're limited on time that night or or you know the next morning it gets pretty tight and sometimes you don't want to miss an error so you're kind of forced to watch the weekend Vlog hence my doing that every single week and then finally I upload it which takes about an hour or two depending on the size of a file and then of course YouTube has to process it which takes a while as it is so the whole process every week with everything combined I would say maybe 5 to 6 hours just you know hey I mean it's a lot of work but you guys seem to enjoy it and my patreon campaign really helps a lot because it just adds a lot of value to my weekly work so great question Brandon next question oh and actually the final question thank God cuz this one's really really long just this video in general comes from aliad over twitter.com aliad 1239 Ali says what gives your family such a close Bond and have there been any tense moments between your family well first of all of course there have been tense moments you know between me and my dad me and my mom me and Kristen and Kristen and my dad Kristen and my mom my mom and dad whatever because we're a family family's fight it's perfectly normal but in my opinion fighting is a good thing because it only makes your relationship with other people stronger you can figure out other people's flaws and you can avoid from making mistakes related to his flaws in the future it's no different than having a girlfriend or a boyfriend I mean it's perfectly normal to fight with them because people have their differences and if you're perfect all the time that just doesn't feel right I mean I know people like the idea of perfection but if you were truly honestly perfect with others life would be kind of dull but in terms of the first part of the question you said what gives your family such a close Bond we've just always been that way I'm I'm a very family oriented person which is why it blows my mind when I see people say oh you went to Vegas with your mom you go camping with your family well of course I do why wouldn't I spend time with those who took 18 19 years or so to raise me and form me into the person that I am today if you are truly like embarrassed or you're unable to hang out with your family and just have fun together I honestly feel bad for you you really need to get your family Mortals straight and you just need to you need to prioritize because this sounds downright depressing and morbid but one day my parents are going to be dead and I dread that day I can't even imagine a life without my mom or dad it's just it's so freaking sad to think about so if I'm not going to hang out with them today or next week or next month and God forbid they you know move on to demise I don't I'm I'm I'm trying to word this carefully in like 30 years and I'm there at their funeral one day saying I wish I would have spent more time with my family well it's too late then I don't get a second chance so obviously I'm going to spend time with them and I think that translates into our family in general we just love having fun together we love spending time together and that's why I love camping in the summer just spending time with my mom and dad and hunter pants and jaman it's fun family is extremely important to me not everybody can understand that because believe me I know I'm extremely lucky I'm extremely fortunate so I think sometimes those hate comments those people don't truly understand what they're saying because they can't understand what it's like to have a close family you know I mean I'm not trying to say that in a bad way it's just we're all different we're we're all we're all raised differently and well honestly that's that's that's kind of what makes life interesting and that's why I think a lot of people enjoy my Vlogs I mean I was just talking to some friends the other day on Facebook saying that they enjoy my Christmas videos because my Christmas traditions with you know my family are different than their Christmas traditions and then another friend said well their family's not as close um you know just just in general so that's why they enjoy my family Vlog so much and honestly that really means a lot to me so yeah that's all I'm trying to say you know what this is a huge huge topic and maybe I'll save this for another video because I've been meeting the kind of rant about this because I cannot stand when I see and I'm assuming it's kids I cannot stand when I see kids online dissing me simply because I like to spend time with my family like who the hell are you to judge so maybe one day I will make a video on that but anyway wow things got deep things got real deep and this is a freaking long AMA video but to everybody who was involved in this video thank you so much I really appreciate it and if you did make it to the end of this video please like that video right below it really does make a big difference and it shows that you actually watched the entire thing I'm trying to get these stats going I'm trying to find out who was actually enjoying my content so please if you can click that like button it goes a long way as always your support is much appreciated and I'll I see you in my next video peace\n"