Welcome to the Imp and Skizz blog, where all we talk about is Imp and Skizz!! Get ready to see a lot of blue and yellow!
What I do here:
Hermitcraft
Imp and Skizz podcast
GIGGS Phasmo / D&D / etc.
Pretty much anything Arizona Dads
Asking Imp and Skizz silly questions on stream
Overanalyzing tiny interactions
Yapping about anything that comes to mind
Fanart
Fanfiction
FRIENDSHIP FRIENDSHIP FRIENDSHIP
If you like these things, you’re in the right place! Enjoy your stay, homie buddeh :-D
What I don’t do here:
NSFW
RPF
Shipping
Angel!Skizz + Demon!Impulse
Life Series / MCC / other competitiony type stuff
Swearing (unless marked)
Fandom drama / negativity
If you like these things, all the more power to you! But I don’t like them, so you will not see them from me ^-^
I am also known as Eloquence (2DadsFromAZ) on the Patreon supporter discord servers for ImpulseSV, Skizzleman, and the Imp&Skizz Podcast; and as Eloquence Assassinated on Youtube and Twitch!
“We’ve all heard the phrase, ‘different is better’. I’m telling you here and now, that is crap. That is absolute crap.
Different is not better. Better is different.
And why I’m saying it like that is because too many people think that just the sheer idea of just doing something different with no thought has better results. That might be the case, like, 0.01% of the time.
But in reality, when you want to make things better, identify what you want to be better about your life, and for the people in front of you, for the future, the future of mankind. Be deliberate about what you’re trying to do, and then get brave.
…And the whole time, you have to be at peace with the fact that there might be risk involved, and you might be in a worse spot than you were in. But that’s what rolling the dice is. That is what going forward and being very deliberate about pushing the envelope is.”
- Imp and Skizz Podcast, Episode 11, “Pushing the Envelope”, 37:14
Half a year and dozens of hours of work later, my Big Dang Project for the @impandskizz-zine is finally complete. This has been a passion project and a labor of love for me for almost the entire time I’ve had this blog, and it’s so surreal to finally release it to the world.
My eternal love to Imp and Skizz and the podcast, and much thanks to the mods and organizers and all the other artists and writers who made the zine a reality. Go check it out here!
Also, here’s the final panel without the lines and text boxes through it. Just in case you, like me, want to stare at it for a while.
If you’ve read this far please send me asks about Symbiosis I’ve been working on this thing for months and I’m dying to talk about it
I’m going on a road trip this month! That’s right, gamers, we are touching grass. Unfortunately I won’t be able to answer asks or messages while I’m gone, but this blog will stay active; it’ll be running on a queue until I get back! We’re gonna clear out my drafts, revisit some old posts, and even celebrate a very special holiday ;-3 Enjoy, and I’ll see y’all when I get back!
Impulse: I think that's the thing that we need to teach, uh, the most, is: how do we get back to the type of humans that would sit down with somebody that they had a disagreement with, and talk it through, and get to understand the point of the other person?
Skizz: Yeah. And I think—even if—
Impulse: [talking over him] Even if you end up disagreeing, which is fine, they don't have to be shut out of your life!
Skizz: See that's what I'm—exactly, dude! Disagreeing is not the world's worst thing. And—
Imp and Skizz on the internet and conflict management
Impulse: But if we wanna step back, like...the internet is what allowed people to find each other quicker and establish these, like—tribes, we'll call 'em, right?—these groups, and create these echo chambers, much quicker than we could do before.
Skizz: Before the internet, exactly.
Impulse: Because it was all in person, you know...pen pal...like, you know what I mean? Like you didn't have as much access to likeminded people around the world, and now we can make connections like this [snaps fingers] but we can also lose connections like this. [snaps fingers]
Impulse: And so there's no real strong bonds that are being made in these tribes that are being created online. Y'know what I mean? The second somebody doesn't agree with you anymore, you can just shut them out. You don't have to go through the hard work of hearing them out and understanding their side and deciding where to meet in the middle or not meet in the middle or agree to disagree, we don't have that anymore, it's just bloop! you're gone. Y'know what I mean?
Skizz: It's the lowest barrier of exit mankind has ever experienced, right?
Impulse: Yeah, exactly.
Skizz: And we—you and I, I dunno if we've ever talked about this on the podcast, but, uh, I never—unfortunately, I haven't finished it yet, because I stopped reading for whatever—but you introduced me to the book "The Anxious Generation".
Impulse: [chuckles] I'm pretty sure that's where I'm pulling a lot of this discussion from, yeah.
Skizz: And it's this fascinating thing, but it really breaks down exactly what you're talking about, right, in regards to the fact that there's such a low barrier of exit, whereas once upon a time, if you didn't get along with somebody in your neighborhood—well, you better figure it out. 'Cause that's your neighbor. So go have it out with 'em, go talk it, figure out why you guys have such a difference—
Impulse: Understand each other!
Skizz: Understand each other, go—you're forced to understand each other, because the barrier of exit is so large because you live right next to each other. So you're either going to come to an agreement or you're gonna fight. But either way, you're gonna get to the other side of this. You're gonna actually properly get to the other side of this. But today, the slightest bit of discomfort—MUTE! MUTE! Like people are losing all social skills on what it is to actually deal with another person.
Impulse: So, I think...I think the way I see it is, the people that, um...they see something and they accept it immediately, it's because...it's already somewhere they're at in their mind. Right? Like if they're in their—I call them 'echo chambers', right, you've heard this term before?
Skizz: Yeah, yeah.
Impulse: Um, so people...we're very tribal. Right? Humans are very tribal people, like, we want to be with like-minded people and stuff like that, it's just kinda the way humankind is, right? And I think the internet has, like, magnified that. Y'know what I mean? Because people are able to find likeminded people much quicker, and they get in their echo chambers and then they only accept what their echo chamber accepts, what their tribe accepts, y'know what I mean, so they stop that critical thinking that you're talking about, if it doesn't agree with the beliefs of their echo chamber.
Skizz: I believe—I do, man!—I believe most people are good. And I just—it’s gonna take a lot to change my mind. I know there’s a lot of bad in the world, but I think most people are good, and for that sake, I think that the internet is widely used for good. Much more than for bad. So I—and I’m—that’s the camp I’m in.
I feel like I’ve been promoting every single one of these podcasts that’s come out since Gamers Outreach, but I can’t help myself! Imp and Skizz just keep churning out bangers! X-D
Yesterday’s podcast was all about the internet. The good, the bad, the ugly; how it’s changed culture, entertainment, and communication; what life was like before it, and what life would be like without it. Imp and Skizz dive into the problems of security, misinformation, echo chambers, tribalism, divisiveness, and the breakdown in critical thinking and the skills to navigate conflict and disagreement; but they also highlight the good that’s come out of the internet and suggest a potential path forward.
Obviously the irony is that I’m highlighting this because they said a lot of things that I already agreed with, thus proving the points they make in this video about pre-conceived notions and tribalism (lol), but I honestly think discussions like these should be Internet Etiquette 101. We’ve got an INCREDIBLY powerful tool right at our fingertips, and it can be used either for great good or for great evil. It’s up to all of us to make sure it’s used for good.
Anyway. Go watch this podcast!! I have a couple clips I want to highlight that I’ll be posting on this blog, but you really should go watch the whole thing so you can get the entire discussion!
Impulse: …63 months! Holy smokes. I got a Can You Dig It in my ear, what’s going on? … Can you guys hear that? … Did you guys hear the Can You Dig It?
Impulse: My goodness. Eloquence! That’s who it is! Thank you so much for the Can You Dig It! $3.14. “Can I just say—” [realizes he read wrong, corrects himself] “Can’t stay, just wanted to say, that today's podcast was epic, possibly one of your best—”
Impulse: Well thank you! Glad you enjoyed that one. It was a very interesting topic. Very interesting topic, uh, on the internet! How it’s changed our lives, and what would we do without it. [chuckle] It was good. If you guys haven’t seen, the Imp and Skizz Podcast came out today, that’s what it’s all about. Queue that up! And, uh, get caught up when you can; Nasiskahn, still behind a little bit. No worries! No worries. They’re there, they’re there.
