Creative drive vs Justification

I was once told that I shouldn’t keep making art or music unless it was making me money. To this day I don’t understand the thinking behind that. I’ve always been a work to live kind of guy and because I don’t spend much money my current “job” teaching kids to play drums at a local primary school as well as part time employment for a local T-shirt manufacturer is enough (although this is only because I live with my parents so of course I’m mooching off of them and not truly supporting myself, I’m not deluding myself into thinking this is actually enough work to live off of). When I started to tell people I wanted to be more serious about making art and making music people asked me “Is that what you want to be, an artist/musician?” and my answer was always no, I didn’t want to “be” an artist, I just wanted to continue drawing, painting etc. I didn’t want to be a musician, I just wanted to continue making music.

Who we play as - Videogames, the protagonist and the player

[Edit] The old video is pretty awful, and although I had fun with it I don't really want it to represent my work, the link still works, but the video is unlisted and has now been replaced with a new one that's a lot more serious and now includes relevant gameplay. I think the improvement between the two is pretty tangible, but it's still not perfect and I'd love feedback. The new video is embedded below. [End Edit]

I made a YouTube video, this is the script I was originally going of, I changed things a bit in the resultant video - see the video here or in the embedded video below and give me some feedback if you can, I'd like to know if the style of comedy I'm going for is interesting to anyone. Just don't complain about the Cicadas. I know about the cicadas.

I recently started for the second time to play Fallout 3. The first time I tried to play as a male avatar, one that looked like me. Within an hour I gave up on that first play through. On my second attempt however I made a female avatar and have probably sunk around 20 hours into the game with this character thus far, despite not being particularly partial to open world games. At first I wasn’t sure why I seemed to be instantly more invested with a female avatar, the Jennifer Hale is a better voice actor argument doesn’t work for a silent protagonist, but I think at least part of the reason lies in Dreamfall: The Longest Journey. In Dreamfall you play as Zoe, and Zoe was the first playable character I truly felt invested in within a video game, in some ways I think that investment carried over into other female protagonists.