🗒 Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 01:21 - Recap 04:07 - Oh no 05:22 - Roberto Orci: a quick introduction 06:34 - Why does any of this matter 09:39 - Outro
If you're actually taking the time to read this description, why not also leave a comment to boost me in the algorithm? Much obliged!Pikmins Capitalist Wasteland | mini essayBram de Groot2023-07-04 | More like Olimarx amirite fellas
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🗒 Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 02:10 - Episode Recap 04:30 - The Myth of False Accusations 07:36 - The Myth of Reputational Damage 09:11 - The Myth of False Memory Syndrome 10:40 - Closing Thoughts & Outro
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If you're reading this description, you might as well leave a comment to boost engagement!How Star Trek: Picard Mishandles Climate Change | mini essayBram de Groot2022-10-27 | Offset your carbon footprint on Wren: wren.co/start/bramdegroot The first 100 people who sign up will have 10 extra trees planted in their name!
If you've scrolled this far down the description, you might as well leave a comment to boost engagement!No, the Dutch Farmers Protests Are Not Working Class | see descriptionBram de Groot2022-08-11 | Small correction: I'm not actually talking about nitrogen gas, but about nitrous oxide, a gas that is responsible for spoiling the soil and a resulting loss of biodiversity, and for a strong greenhouse effect. Cows also emit methane, another very potent greenhouse gas. While the larger point stands, I wanted to make sure to set the record straight on the details.
📚 Sources: On Dutch farmers being millionaires: https://www.ed.nl/overig/gemiddelde-nederlandse-boer-lijkt-miljonair~a106e1a8/?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F
On the police violence used against farmers: https://www.metronieuws.nl/in-het-nieuws/binnenland/2022/07/politie-wapen-boerenblokkades-boerenprotest-schoten/
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🗒 Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 01:18 - FNV's Karma System 03:03 - Philosophical Lecture 06:16 - FNV's Messy Ethical Framework 08:54 - Relativism vs Universalism 13:15 - Picking Sides: The Faction Quests 15:08 - Dehumanizing Addicts 17:27 - Closing Words
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*I'm using post-COVID in the sense that I'm analysing the game after COVID came into existence, not in the sense that the pandemic is somehow behind us now because ooh boy is it not
🗒 Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 01:20 - "The Great Reset" 07:38 - Empty Streets 08:28 - Vaccines 10:37 - Closing Words
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🗒 Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 02:08 - Chekhov as a Russian Stereotype 04:53 - Pavel Chekhov, Teen Heartthrob 05:47 - Post-TOS Chekhov 07:31 - Closing Words
If you've scrolled this far down the description, you might as well leave a comment to boost engagement!What Netflix Dont Look Up Gets Wrong About Climate Change | a video essayBram de Groot2022-04-19 | More like "Don't look up if Joe Biden has actually done anything about global warming yet" amirite
Rethink Technology Research - "Time to call bullshit on Carbon Capture" https://rethinkresearch.biz/articles/time-to-call-bullshit-on-carbon-capture/
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🗒 Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 01:03 - Plot Summary 03:30 - The Causes of Climate Change Inaction 10:47 - Don't Look Up's Proposed Solutions 15:52 - The TakeawaySpider-Cop: Police, Justice and Copaganda in Spider-Man PS4 | a video essayBram de Groot2022-02-13 | Saying "ACAB" is the easy part. Accepting that "ACAB" includes Spidey is the hard part.
📢 Shout-outs to videos I took inspiration from: Verilybitchie - "Spider-Man, Class and Militarization in the Marvel Cinematic Universe" youtube.com/watch?v=I0Wpm25FaF8
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🗒 Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 02:03 - Empire State of Nature 06:31 - Why Spidey Is a Class Traitor 10:44 - Judicial Whack-A-Mole 14:02 - With Great Power Comes No Accountability 18:54 - Spider-Lib 22:26 - ConclusionHow Animal Crossings Villager Trade Betrays the Series Ideological Core | mini essayBram de Groot2021-11-17 | More like Anarchist Crossing am I right
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#theessaylibraryRobin Hood as a Radical Hero | mini essayBram de Groot2021-09-23 | Why steal from the rich to feed the poor when you could feed them to the poor directly?
🎵 Track names for the music used are in the end credits!
If you've scrolled this far down the description, you might as well leave a comment to boost engagement!Abortion and Bodily Autonomy in Star Trek | a video essayBram de Groot2021-08-30 | Forced-birthers don't belong in space.
UCSF - "Five Years After Abortion, Nearly All Women Say It Was the Right Decision, Study Finds" https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/01/416421/five-years-after-abortion-nearly-all-women-say-it-was-right-decision-study
If you've scrolled this far down the description, you might as well leave a comment to boost engagement!How Psychonauts Casually Exposes Americas Dark Side | mini essayBram de Groot2021-08-02 | Imperialism is as American as apple pie, except apple pie is English.
"Should We End Military Recruiting in High Schools as a Matter of Child Protection and Public Health?" - Am J Public Health ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3000735
If you've scrolled this far down the description, you might as well leave a comment to boost engagement!All Tomorrows, Fascism and Degeneration | a video essayBram de Groot2021-07-13 | Fascism doesn't belong in space.
📚 The bare minimum of reading you should do before accusing me of not knowing what fascism is: http://www.pegc.us/archive/Articles/eco_ur-fascism.pdfOn Time, Relativity and Perspective | micro essayBram de Groot2021-07-11 | This video was made as part of The Essay Library Anthology Vol. 2, a collaborative project of 60-second micro essays by several video essayists around the topic of "time". Check the playlist for the rest of them!
#theessaylibraryOn Zelda, Oceanhorn and the Value of Derivative Art | a video essayBram de Groot2021-06-30 | Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but is that all it's good for?
🐤 My Twitter I barely use: twitter.com/officialbrexMonopolys Anti-Landlord Origins | a video essayBram de Groot2021-05-28 | Go to jail, do not collect most of your tenants' income simply for owning a building.
🎓 An incomplete list of sources: That Thomas Smith quote: Adam Smith, "On Labour, and on the Order According to Which its' Produce is Naturally Distributed Among the Different Ranks of the People. Book I: On the Causes of Improvement in the Productive Powers"
The World Bank, "Population living in slums (% of urban population)" (The World Bank is a very bad source on things like this, but it's biased the other way, so that would only mean that the reality is even worse) data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.POP.SLUM.UR.ZSOn Shantae, Objectification and Lazy Lampshading | mini essayBram de Groot2021-05-18 | (Half-)genie of the lamp(shade).
Lindsay Ellis - "The Most Whitewashed Character In Literary History" youtube.com/watch?v=XrhrXTDeue0Horizon: Zero Dawn and Climate Change | a video essayBram de Groot2021-04-25 | Things may seem dire in Horizon's world, but we have our own Derangement to take care of.
"The carbon footprint sham: a 'successful, deceptive' PR campaign" - Mashable mashable.com/feature/carbon-footprint-pr-campaign-shamThe Fallout Game that Accidentally Advocates for Eugenics | mini essayBram de Groot2021-03-10 | War. War only changes through proper breeding.
👍 Leave a like or a comment to feed the Algorithm, the elder god that decides my destiny!The Impossible 80s of Wolfenstein: Youngblood | a video essayBram de Groot2021-02-19 | Apparently, conservatives burning their own possessions to own the libs has always been a thing.
🐤 My Twitter I barely use: twitter.com/officialbrexHot Fuzz: Taking Jokes Full Circle (Montage)Bram de Groot2016-12-09 | Edgar Wright's Hot Fuzz would have been a good movie by its jokes alone, but the way they play into the film's last act elevates it to a great one.BB-8 vs R2-D2. Epic Rap Battles of History. ParodyBram de Groot2015-12-29 | The most Epic Rap Battle yet, between two generations of iconic Star Wars droids. Who won? Who's next? You decide!
TWITTER: http://bit.ly/15F5AwV FACEBOOK: http://on.fb.me/11dVsUTAnders Nilsen - Sansa Daenerys (Game of Thrones Salsa Tequila Parody)Bram de Groot2014-09-21 | The one and only summer (or fall) jam for Game of Thrones fans! TULLY!
(verse) Joffrey, Iron Islands Varys, Tyrell, The Others The Iron Bank of Braavos Viserys, dragons, wildlings Valyrian, David Benioff The Eyrie, Petyr Baelish Ned Stark, King's Landing, Dragonstone Lannister, Red Wedding
(bridge) Catelyn Tully! Melisandre! Jorah Mormont! You know nothing! Samwell Tarly! Lots of incest! By the old gods! And the new ones! Peter Dinklage! Littlefinger! Lady Stoneheart! Theon Greyjoy! When you play the Game of Thrones, you either win or die! TULLY!
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(verse) Free cities, lots of bastards Winterfell, The Mountain Iron Throne, The Children The Lord of Light, Tyrion Carice van Houten, boobies Riverrun, Lord Renly 1,2,3,4 If you're a Stark, I'm sorry
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1, 2, 3, EUNUCHS!
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(outro) Yeah, winter is coming! Ours is the fury! Hear me roar! Fire and blood! I never read the books!
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