ADHD vs An Arcane Video Essay
Channel: Michael Coolwood
Date: 2022-06-02

My ADHD-riddled brain has blocked me from making a video about Arcane for nearly a year. So I decided to make a video about how blocks like that can feel.

When working up to shooting this video, I worked out roughly what I was going to say, but as you might expect a lot of the words I used were fully improvised. This led to me starting some thoughts without finishing them, and other parts which are less clear than I'd like. For example, when I talk about addiction, I parrot nonsense patrician arguments about addiction in a silly voice, and watching it back I would have liked to have made it clearer that saying 'you're choosing to buy cigarettes, you're choosing to smoke them' fundamentally misunderstands what addiction is and how it works. So it goes, hopefully my sarcastic tone means there won't be any confusion there.

Also, with my point about the cop grabbing Vi being a co-incidence, I know he was very specifically looking for her, but the co-incidence comes from him grabbing her in the two minutes after she was separated from powder, and in the thirty seconds before she could intervene to stop powder getting 'adopted' by one-eyed antagonist dude.