Transparency Boo
Zombie Bands and Occupied Legacies | Censorship Cut
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00:00 Opening
01:54 Chapter 3: The Whole Conundrum
11:50 Chapter 3: Backlog Essentialism
22:06 Chapter 3: This is an Earthbound bit by the way, you would get it if you actually sat down and played through Earthbound for once
28:00 Chapter 3: Reverse the Polarity of the Neutron Flow
38:05 Patreon Thanks
41:17 Secret Ending
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#gaming #backlog #videogames #videoessay #analysis
BONUS MEME
A funny detail we didn't bring up in the video is how so many of those backlogs people keep seem to contain more or less the same games. You know, story focused massive romps from the last 10 years or so. The Witcher 3, Portal, God of War, Spider-Man, Last of Us, you get the gist. Like, yeah, maybe you have to make some time to get through Persona 5, but god, I don't know dude... Maybe you just don't like Persona? Maybe you don't have to give it the time of day? I am still waiting for them to make the superior Shin Megami Tensei Fursona, but that's just a distant dream. I cry about it at night. If you see this, write a comment that includes the word "fursona" somewhere within it.
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#capcom #playstation #psx #videoessay #videogames #analysis #art #onepiece
BONUS MEME
It is incredible that this game has avoided basically all thorough inspection simply by being called One Piece Mansion. It seems literally everyone in the entire world feels real cheeky about bringing up the acclaimed manga One Piece by renowned artist Eiichiro Oda, starring Monkey D. Luffy and his Straw Hat pirates. I mean, we did it too, so we're not judging. We might as well just hone in on that non-existent connection a bit more. Why don't you write in the comments about your favourite One Piece character, and imagine how they would be as an apartment neighbour. My favourite is of course Carrot, I think she would overload the electrical sockets and stick weird shoji fanart in your mailbox.
00:00 Opening
03:21 Resources & Exploitation
11:45 Capitalism: Unleashed
27:35 Emerging Humanity
45:09 The Proto-Apocalypse
1:06:09 Epilogue
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#pikmin #pikmin1 #pikmin2 #pikmin3 #pikmin4 #nintendo #olimar #nintendoswitch #explained #videoessay
BONUS MEME:
Pikmin, Pikmin, Pikmin, eat up, my children. While we may have mentioned most Pikmin games in this video, we didn't bring up Pikmin Finder because we didn't find it relevant, but most crucially we never mentioned Hotel Transylvania 3: Monsters Overboard, a game that is practically Pikmin in all but name. We certainly could've discussed it in relationship to vampire's and cruise ships, but the video was starting to get a bit long so we neglected it. Our friend Nichtschwert also brought up Overlord, where you have goblins instead of Pikmin. It seems the Piklike genre is overflowing! We're Pikmin'd out now, though. I don't wanna talk about Pikmin anymore, sorry. Have fun, friends. If you see this, write a comment that includes the word "breadbug". Bye!
00:00 Introduction to Outrun
04:38 Chapter 1: Leave Them All Behind
22:51 Chapter 2: The Giant Day
38:53 Chapter 3: Long Life
55:00 Sunset Patreon Ride
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#outrun #sega #megadrive #segagenesis #arcade #ferrisbuellersdayoff #ferrisbueller #outrun2 #videoessay #explained #ferrari #racinggames
BONUS MEME!
Racing games, huh? Have you ever noticed that people don't often make video essays about them? Despite being a pretty popular genre too. Like usual we wanted to make something unique, and just making something about a racing game clearly wasn't enough. So instead we made this strange art piece that combines several things about cars. What a wild ride. Kiki wrote it, however I still think Outrun 2 is a bit better than the original, it is at the very least the one I go back to over and over again. I tried to download it on our PS3 recently, but it was gone from my download list. Can you believe it? They deleted it from my downloads as if they owned the place. Rude. I paid good money for that game in 2009 or whenever it was released. And now it's just gone. This is why you can't trust digital games, people. We also showed off Cosmic Race in this video because it's a neat little game that no one really remembers except for weirdos who read about it in a video game magazine once. I played it once on an emulator and knew I had to own it so I instantly tracked a copy down. Ridge Racer, Gran Turismo and all these other PS1 racing games are also cool. Do you remember freaking Lego Racers? That title screen music though. Stuck in my head since I was but a wee barne. Also, did you know Sonic the Hedgehog shows up in several Outrun games as some cute cameo? Sometimes with Tails in the Tornado, or as an advertisement. In Outrun 2 he's a statue. I just find it funny, because it's like Outrun is definitely the second biggest Sega game about "gotta go fast", so it's like Sonic is respectfully showing his approval.
If you read all of this share your favourite racing game in the comments!
Read about Pokémon Nice Cards:
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00:00 Fresh Island Zone
02:28 Chapter 1: Alicia's Report
33:46 Chapter 2: Kiki's Art Study
1:00:18 Patreon Channel
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#pokemon #pokemonchannel #pikachu #nintendo
BONUS MEME!
Yes, we know it was released state-side as Hey You Pikachu, we were simply doing a little jokey joke about it, ignoring its existence out of spite, so to say. Might as well mention Pokémon Dash also having a semblance of Pikachu hang-outiness within it. Do those three games form the Pikachu Lounge trilogy? Absolutely not, what a ridiculous idea. By the way, I wonder how many Pokémon appear in this video. You could totally just sit down and meticulously count them all. Pikachu, Smeargle, Slowpoke, Squirtle, Delibird, etc. You'd have to be really bored, but definitely not as bored as we were having to watch the Pichu Bros episode like 50 times while making this video. I find it funny how when you watch that one repeatedly, it really highlights how uneven the starring roles for the gang are. The Pichu Bros are of course real important, the one with the tuft of hair is a bit older and scolds the younger one when he doesn't wanna give back the ticket to Oddish. Then we have Teddiursa, who sniffs up food with his snoot and say TEDDI URSA all the time. (You should mention Teddiursa somewhere in a comment if you read this.) Then of course we have Smoochum, who's the girl one, so she's vein about her own reflection and emotionally aware of Oddish's torment. After that we have Magby who says MAGBY when he recognizes a clock and then almost drowns in a river. His role is like nothing, but not as nothing as Wooper who literally just stands around in the background vibing. But then we have Azumarill who I guess is the one handing out the tickets to the other Pokémon, and forgot to give tickets to the Pichu gang. Did you notice how they just kinda hang out with them after that? Goes to the party and hands over their ticket at the same time, and then leaves with them. Bro thinks they're part of the squad. This doesn't even get into how Meowth's gang are a bunch of assorted misfits. You'd suppose it's some sort of Team Rocket extension, what with Meowth talking and hanging out with Wobbuffet, but then Cubone is just there because I guess they needed a drummer? And the Squirtle gang, who don't even play in the band during the party. What are they doing? Carrying plates? It's funny thinking about the logistics of Meowth taking them to the rooftop twice to look at the skyline and go "well guys, this is what I've always dreamed of" and I can just imagine Cubone being "why did he take us up to the roof to say this?" while Wobbuffet is just like "he's been dreaming about the rooftops?"
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#supermariomovie #supermariobros #nintendo #princesspeach #donkeykong #bowser #cinema #videogames #nintendoswitch #explained #analysis #videoessay #lore #theory
BONUS MEME!
Seriously though, I can't be upset about this new Mario movie because it just looks like so much goofy fun. I usually don't feel I get pandered to by Hollywood nerd bait, so this is still kinda novel to me. I see Donkey Kong on screen and point like a little monkey. I felt the same with the Sonic the Hedgehog movies, excitement all around. Imagining some post-credits teaser where they show the Koopa kids or Wario or something and everyone in the theater screaming. When they showed like five new seconds of cat Mario footage the other day I went bananas. I just can't stop being hype about anything they show, I love everything about it so far. Yes, everything. Even that ridiculous little "wahoo" Chris Pratt gives off in the go-kart. It's the funniest voice delivery I've heard in years. I walk around my apartment doing "wahoo" impressions and laugh to myself. Help me, I need this movie injected into my veins. It's gonna be one of those where you get it on ultra 4K Blu-ray only to freeze frame through the entire film just to spot every detail. Anyway, if you've read this, write a comment that includes the word "wahoo". Also, Super Princess Peach is a great game, I don't know what is wrong with all of these nerds.
♥ Big thanks to our guest voices ♥
@TBSkyen and @iamerror
00:00 Opening
04:15 Introducing Tearaway (Parts 1 & 2)
12:50 The Messenger: A Peculiar Avatar
20:39 Valleyfold Jig
29:25 Sogport Blues
45:30 Grand Tear Improv
55:39 Chapter 4
1:11:34 The Message
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#tearaway #playstation #papercraft #tearawayunfolded #mediamolecule #videogames #sony #littlebigplanet #psvita #fourthwall #nintendo #ps4 #explained #videoessay #undertale
BONUS MEME!
There is so much stuff we wanted to say about this game that we couldn't without the video turning into a 5 hour mess. With that in mind, I find it so strange that more people don't talk about it. Everything from art design to narrative is filled to the brim with stuff to talk about. If I had the opportunity I would add a segment that is basically just a bunch of vistas with the background sounds for ambience, because the atmosphere in this game is so freaking good! The best even! Makes me feel like I am back home by the country side on a nice, warm summers day. Delightful. The Messenger is clearly cooler than Sackboy. Instead people talk about God of War Ragnarök or Horizon: Way Out West. I saw parts of the Game Awards this year and God of War is everything apparently. So no love for Tearaway. Sad times. Honestly Tearaway Unfolded should've just gotten game of the year 2022, and preferably every year after that and retroactively every year before that. That's only fair. If you read all of this junk you should leave a comment that involves the sentence "I love paper because it makes my hands feel glutinous" or something. Tell us what paper makes your hands feel like. Only nice things though, nothing rude or mean. Because then you'll make Atoi cry, you monster.
00:00 Opening
07:21 Introducing Sonic Adventure
09:23 Meeting the "Friends"
13:20 Different Perspectives
19:34 Miles "Tails" Prower
25:30 Amy "the Rascal" Rose
31:32 E-102 Gamma
36:27 Big the Cat (& Knuckles)
39:52 Tikal and the Player
46:17 The Radical Conclusions
49:00 Outro and Patreon
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#sonicthehedgehog #sonicadventure #videoessay #videogames #sega #segadreamcast #analysis #explained #lore #furry #bigthecat #retro #retrogaming #artgames
BONUS MEME:
As some of you clever viewers might have already noticed this is actually the third video in our very subtle "Fox Trilogy", where we talk about fox-based characters in video games. First there was the outstanding indie game Tunic, then we talked extensively about the Star Fox series and now we're ending it with Sonic Adventure, where we of course explore a lot about our friend Miles Tails Prower. This was of course completely planned out from the beginning and didn't just happen to be this way out of coincidence. This took months to plan, and if you look really closely you might find hints and clues in each video that points to each other. We're very clever you see. If you found these hints and clues in the previous two videos why not share them in the comments? That would be really fun for us. There's one in particular in the Tunic video that might be a bit obscure and hard to spot, but if you look closely you might just find it. It was basically furshadowing.
Guest voices:
@TBSkyen
@pimscrypt
00:00 Opening
04:08 Chapter 1: The Core Values of Star Fox
26:21 Chapter 2: Breaking the Rules
44:56 Chapter 2½: Hicoh kohudk udt taskukeh ev Dinosaur Planet
1:02:43 Chapter 3: Apaptosis, huh?
1:26:59 Chapter 4: Trouble in Space Paradise
2:00:55 Chapter 5: Oh no, there are more Star Fox games!
2:23:40 Kiki Ending and Patreon
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THE INTERVIEW: shmuplations.com/starfoxadventures
#StarFox #Nintendo #Krystal
BONUS MEME
This video took a lot out of us, and we did not even manage to talk about everything we wanted to. We are basically Star Fox'ed out for a long time, so hopefully Nintendo doesn't announce a new one on a Nintendo Direct or something soon. I don't think we would be ready to deal with that now. The point of this video was basically that Miyu and Fay are really cool and they should have come back to Star Fox a long time ago. Like, why scrap such good designs when they're already made and ready to go. By the way the supposed leak about a Star Fox racing game by Retro Studios that was floating around several years ago was rad as heck. Would've loved to see an F-Zero-esque Star Fox racer so much, and it would be hilarious if they actually continued that thread after Command. Like who would've seen that coming? I would laugh and love it. Also, there should honestly be more Star Fox Adventures games, because I think the adventure game formula that games like The Legend of Zelda use just makes a lot of sense for this series. Exploring planets and all that jazz. Make a Star Fox platformer, kind of like Super Mario too, why not. Just make a Star Fox game for every genre, that would be great. Just throw everything at the wall and see what sticks. Star Fox Dark Souls. Fox Souls. Star Fox turn based RPG. Star Fox Panel de Pon. Star Fox Lore game. Just keep em coming Nintendo. If you've read this far write a comment about how you would love to see a Star Fox Minecraft game, and if someone else has written that too then reply to them as well and tell them what a great idea it is. Star Fox in Fortnite.
Guest voice:
@nichtschwert3307
00:00 Opening
03:12 Tunic and the Importance of Paratext
12:38 All the Cool Foxes Love Brainveinias Today!
18:19 Why the Legend of Zelda Was Always Good
24:47 Conclusion
28:38 Patreon
30:56 Spoilers
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#TheLegendofZelda #Tunic #GOTY2022
BONUS MEME
This video was fun to make because like half of it are just static shots from the manual, which I guess is easy, but you're also limited by not being able to show every page while also needing to vary the selections. A hard balance. Maybe that's the developer's intention? Can you imagine if they had a video essayist easy mode where there are like 100 pages in the manual with fully animated pictures and everything. You could have Tunic as a little poseable v-tuber fursona and everything. Oh, right, we've been calling that little fox Tunic internally, but I guess their real name is Ruin Seeker or something. We ended up just saying "fox boy" in the video because it rolls off the tongue. "Fox boy toy box" is really funny to say, you should write that in the comment section if you see this.
By the way, it's funny how Tunic is a fox, while in A Link to the Past you become a rabbit and in Twilight Princess you become a wolf, which means that Tunic fits somewhere in-between on the scale. Maybe the fox is Link's fursona or something? Although I guess everyone loves foxes. Who doesn't love foxes? That was the secret ingredient to the Dark Souls games all along, have a fox protagonist. Brilliant! Elden Ring got snubbed off being game of the year simply because you can't play as a little sneaky forest critter. Harsh but fair lesson to learned! Every game should just feature a fox uncovering an instruction book like some lost media nut. What are you even doing if your video game doesn't have that going for it? Get it together, Miyazaki! Who needs lore if I can have "press A to jump"?
Guest voice:
@Chariot_Rider
00:00 Opening
05:19 The Portopia Serial Murder Case
09:27 What even is an alternate ending?
12:35 Chrono Trigger
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#ChronoTrigger #MultipleEndings #FinalFantasyVI
BONUS MEME:
Isn't it kinda funny how in Chrono Trigger there's this cutscene where the characters talk about a mysterious entity beyond the frames of their world reliving its past again and again and it's so obviously referring to how the player is going through the game repeatedly, yet regardless the Chrono Trigger fandom is like confused about who this character is, it's just very hilarious. Anyway, nice to hear about Radical Dreamers dropping for real in that Chrono Cross thing, looking forward to when everyone will play it for like 5 minutes and write it off as boring, but what can you do? Also, we hope no one is super disappointed that we didn't talk at length about Croc: Legend of the Gobbos or its acclaimed sequel Croc 2 in this video despite all the nods towards it. We just found it funny to exemplify your typical game with Croc against the villains in Bomberman 64 and Klonoa, running through a Nights world collecting bobbins and Mediterranean food. Well, spagnoli is actually just a name, we initially wrote spaggoli as a weird expression for spaghetti and then the spell check wanted to change it to spagnoli and we were just like "what the heck". It should also be noted that whipped cream on the mashed potatoes is an actual Swedish saying, although it's a more general "cream on the mash" which doesn't specify that it's mashed potatoes, and to be real it probably isn't meant to be, but most people will automatically drift towards it being potatoes in their head. Additionally, cherries weren't actually in season, so we had to buy strawberries instead. Don't think about it.
A special thanks for everyone who participated and lent their voices for this video;
@pimscrypt
@hotcyder
@nichtschwert3307
@DavidJBradley
@KingKlonoa
@TBSkyen
@Darkfry
probskay/Just My Narratives: shorturl.at/euMQU
00:00 Introduction
09:20 The Trials of Donkey & Diddy
20:26 Gender in Donkey Kong Country
38:07 The Tone of Donkey Kong Country 3
47:53 Conclusions and a Conclusion
58:26 Patreon
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#DonkeyKong #DixieKong #Rareware
Bonus meme:
Kiddy Kong is genuinely rad. Like he is a really fun character to play as and the balance he provides in Donkey Kong Country 3 is honestly amazing. It's kind of sad how a lot of us have just been focusing so hard on the way he looks that all of the good he does has been completely overshadowed by hate. We have probably watched every single Donkey Kong Country based video there is to be found, and the amount of times we have seen people claim that they just kill him first chance they get so they don't have to play as him is honestly ridiculous. One of the reasons cited is because of how much slower than Dixie Kong he is, but that is actually not really quite true at all – in reality Kiddy and Dixie have the exact same running speed. But I can see why someone would miss that when they even go out of their way to avoid playing as him. People are actually so mad about this boy that they make stuff up based on what he looks like – he is chunky so therefore he must be a slow runner. Gosh, I dunno. Dixie Kong's Double Trouble changes the focus a bit, makes the characters move at similar speeds and instead focuses on their specific abilities as differentiating factors, and I actually think it is better for it. Maybe we should just be a bit nicer about Kiddy Kong and not be freaking babies about it. Kiddy Kong is good, and you should all just stop being mean.
00:00 - Introduction
05:41 - Chapter 1: The Hedgehog Boys
16:16 - Chapter 2: The Jumping Game
29:54 - Chapter 3: The Obtuse Story
51:59 - Conclusion: Every Second Was an Adventure
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#BalanWonderworld #YujiNaka #SonicTeam
Bonus meme:
Have you ever thought about that Nights and Sonic the Hedgehog too are single button games made by Yuji Naka and Naoto Ohshima? Like, I don't think it was that out of left field that they would once again come back to that idea and explore it further. Once again I am left a bit baffled about what people genuinely expected this game to be when these two have a very distinct catalogue of games that speak for themselves. One of Yuji Naka's more recent games is Ivy the Kiwi? for gods sake. It should have been pretty clear from the start that these guys wouldn't make something conventional for all the gamers out there. Anyway, I think we are probably talking way too much about if games are good or bad instead of talking about their ideas and what is actually interesting about them. It's a bit of a shame that value statements of quality has taken such a huge role in how we communicate about video games because it kind of sucks tbh, lol.
Theory, explained, analysis, video essay and other buzz words for the search engine or something.
Big thanks to our friends for looking over the script and doing voices:
@pimscrypt
@DavidJBradley
@TBSkyen
00:00 Introduction
13:51 What Even Is a Labyrinth?
23:47 Chilly Down
29:53 As the World Falls Down
41:38 Magic Dance
47:16 Within You
50:50 Underground
58:08 The Importance of Labyrinth
1:08:34 Patreon
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#Labyrinth #DavidBowie #Muppets
Bonus meme:
Labyrinth was actually very important for the adventure game genre, as the Lucas Arts adaptation was a brand new venture for the studio that predates a lot of ideas from Maniac Mansion, practically laying the foundations for the SCUMM engine. Douglas Adams even got on board, suggesting lots of ideas, the most interesting being how the game starts out as a text adventure and then transforms into a visual one when the player enters the labyrinth. Basically, if it wasn't for Labyrinth you wouldn't have Secret of Monkey Island and we think that is worth appreciating. Also, savvy Transparency viewers will recognize that the customizable characters in the Labyrinth video game can also be found in the early online multiplayer game Habitat! The two were in development at the same time and share a lot of DNA. Isn't that quite rad? Everything is connected, remember this Transparency lore. Nothing we say is ever superfluous or unnecessary, all of it has meaning!
Big thanks to our friends for looking over the script:
@pimscrypt
@DavidJBradley
@hotcyder (Who also did a voice!)
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#review #essay #bubsy3d
Bonus meme:
Yes, we put Doug Walker from the esteemed Channel Awesome show the Nostalgia Critic (and also Demo Reel) in the thumbnail, even though he shows up unmentioned like once in the video. But you know what? This is how you game the Youtube system, this is pure clickbait, baby! Like half of the people clicking this will do so because they thought we'd be commenting on something goofy pertaining to Doug's brain, or whatever. How many of you even noticed Count Orlok from Nosferatu standing behind him? That was a funny element to include for the halloween season, right? Public domain is fucking great, I sure wish we had more of it, but you know. Disney gotta have Mickey Mouse, I guess. Anyway, if you read all of this, go comment "God is dead, Donkey is Kong" or something.
00:00 Introduction
06:01 Chapter I: The Metroid Foundation
27:19 Chapter II: Metroid Fusion is the best, f--k you
56:22 Chapter III: Oh no, there is more Metroid stuff
01:18:13 Chapter IV: The Damage
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#Metroid #Nintendo #Videoessay
Bonus Meme:
Some people might claim that we are reading too much into the first four games, and yeah, maybe that is true. But the sad truth is that if that's the case then we probably thought about this more than Nintendo did and the series is just going to narratively stagnate. Then again the arc about Samus, the Metroids and the Chozo is supposedly being wrapped up now, and that at least fills me with some hope. The series really deserves to continue off of Fusion and just go its own way now. Also, Master Chief should be in Metroid. Not in Super Smash Bros Ultimate though. That is just silly to me. The fact that anyone believes that Master Chief, or the Doom Guy for that matter, has any sort of chance to get into that game just baffles me.
A big special thanks to @DrawpinionDump for lending us her voice for this one. Here are some links where you can find her. Feel free to leave a comment and say that we sent ya;
- twitter.com/drawpiniondump
- youtube.com/channel/UCveuCkTaxr5cDc60eaf4dmQ
Select charity organization for the homeless who are explicitly LGBT friendly:
akt.org.uk
truecolorsunited.org
https://www.queer-refugees.de/
le-refuge.org
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#Oliver&Company #Disney #Videoessay
Bonusmeme:
We actually made an Oliver & Company Iceberg in preparation for this video. It's full of really good information about the movie, things that you'll probably want to know and research. Also, if you're wondering, the Oliver & Company merch is really cheap. Buying all this crap really did not hurt our wallets one bit. The Georgette plush is pretty much as new, looks spotless, and we got that sucker for just 3 bucks in a second hand store. I guess talking about stuff that no one really cares about has its benefits, especially if you are going to be a 'fan' of it. Being an Oliver & Company fan is like the cheapest fandom in the world, no kidding. Also Final Fantasy VII.
00:00 Opening
05:40 Chapter I: The Legacy of the Digital Revolution
18:01 Chapter II: The Worst Tragedy of All Time
41:43 Chapter III: Physical is not forever
1:06:13 Chapter IV: Playable Games | Transcending Form
1:18:28 Patreon Credits
Special thanks for providing your voices!
KawlunDram from @AllSourceGaming
@hotcyder
@TBSkyen
@eurothug4000
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#Preservation #LostMedia #Nintendo
BONUSMEME:
One day Minecraft will be lost to time, and no one will remember the old relic Fortnite. Can you imagine that? Me neither, but it is true. Anyway, what I wanted to say is basically that people should remember that we need to preserve all video games, not just the ones that are widely seen as worthwhile and good. That includes mobile games for example, which commonly have been seen as just random bullshit games by a lot of gamers. That doesn't matter, we need to save AFK Arena wether you like it or not. About that – did you know that Markiplier was in that freaking game? Yeah, and he was basically a character giving you what can basically be called lootboxes. He even had his dog with him! Like, fine if he wants to do that himself, but the dog can't even decide for itself. Feels kind of mean if you ask me.
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the chocobo tower, because we sure did.
Special thanks for providing your voices!
@pimscrypt
@CodexEntry
@AdequateEmily
@ThatJess
Aranock - youtube.com/channel/UCz29LD_ExrtRS-Wj-dRL3iw
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#FinalFantasyXIV #MMORPG #Cyberspace
Special thanks for providing your voices!
@DavidJBradley
@Arcadology
@nichtschwert3307
The Mario Bros video by @HBMmaster;
youtube.com/watch?v=NYZOngyZvaI
Do what we did and support Eli Rainsberry by buying the Wilmot's Warehouse soundtrack;
elirainsberry.itch.io/wilmots-warehouse-ost
List of criticisms against Amazon;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Amazon#Treatment_of_workers
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#MarioBros #WilmotsWarehouse #Sokoban
Bonus meme;
We asked people for some examples of labour based games before making this video, and we got a heck of a lot of responses to it. We quickly realized that we should have been a bit more specific as it turned out we got everything from Zelda Breath of the Wild to fun revolution kids game Pikuniku. While we could not fit all that stuff into the video we still appreciate everyone who came up with ideas, it was very interesting to say the least. Here are some of the games that were suggested, and you should probably check them out;
Va-11hall-a
Tacoma
Cart Life
Going Under
Not for Broadcast
Not Tonights
Five Nights at Freddy's
Viscera Cleanup Detail
Umuragami Generation
Trauma Center
Stardew Valley
Desert Bus
Overcooked
Moving Out
Punch Club
Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor
Human Resource Machine
OFF
Red Strings Club
Everyday the same dream
Never Alone Hotline
To Build a Better Mousetrap
Assemble With Care
Sunset
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#SuperMario64 #iceberg #personalization
Bonus meme;
Super Mario 64 is honestly kind of creepy, isn't it? Like it's so lonely and Mario is all alone in the world. Yeah, there are enemies and stuff, but Mario doesn't have any friends here. Very creepy. Almost like Sonic.exe. Sometimes I think about Super Mario and how he is actually kind of like my dad - he is a plumber, he is a doctor and he likes pasta. Like man, could it be more blatant that Nintendo stole the concept of my dad? Does this make me Luigi? Doug Walker thinks so.
Guest voices performed by:
Kevin Erhard - youtube.com/arcadology
Ludiscere - youtube.com/ludiscere
TBSkyen - youtube.com/TBSkyen
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#FinalFantasy #Tidus #SquareEnix
Some juicy nuggets for the algorithm:
The laughing scene is infamous and has, just like Sonic the Hedgehog, been wrongly treated. Everyone knows that the lore and story of these two franchises are deep and have been analysed and explained to great success, and yet some would claim that they are just a bunch of poo poo. No more I say. We will decide who is right in a battle, a tournament of three rounds to be precise. We will play the best games ever made and the winner will take everything. The games will of course be Fortnite, Minecraft and Nintendoland. Everything will of course be played on the Wii U - the superior Nintendo system. Can you believe the slander that system has had to deal with over the years? I don't know about you but I for one think that it did everything right. Let me explain to you why this is the case. You know Star Fox Zero? Best one. Super Mario 3D World? Best one. All with intuitive controls and rich experiences, finally in HD even. Isn't that just amazing?
Bonus meme:
What if that's just how people laugh in Zanarkand?
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#LittleNightmares #Explained #Horror
Some juicy nuggets for the algorithm:
LITTLE NIGHTMARES LORE TIMELINE EXPLAINED, SIX AND MONO IN A CROSS OVER ADVENTURE WITH SILENT HILL AND FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S. Can you imagine that though? Sneaking as Six through the locations of Five Nights at Freddy's? It kind of writes itself. Oh scary spooky ghost boy animatronics, also that teacher is frightening. Creepy crawly booberscamp.
Bonus meme:
Pretend to be mad about the lore or something in the comments.
Guest voices performed by:
Scott from NerdSync - youtube.com/user/NerdSyncProductions
Casey Explosion - twitter.com/CaseyExplosion
00:00 We're Going to Canada
05:03 Mountain Allegory
14:43 Forsaken City
19:01 Old Site
24:15 Celestial Resort
29:25 Golden Ridge
34:10 Mirror Temple
43:19 Reflection
52:06 The Summit and Beyond
59:48 Reading Celeste
1:04:35 The Trans Lens
1:09:31 Conclusion
1:13:31 Patreon Credits
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#Celeste #Canada #Explained
Nugget for the algorithm:
CELESTE EXPLAINED WHAT IT MEANS THE ULTIMATE FAN THEORY ABOUT ALL THE LORE COULD BADELINE BE MADELINE BUT DIFFERENT?!
LIKE FAVORITE AND SUBSCRIBE IF YOU WANNA SEE THE VIDEO ABOUT WHY MARIO CAN JUMP SO HIGH
Guest voice performed by Kevin the Arcadologist - youtube.com/c/Arcadology
Pathologic footage courtesy of Pim Is Online - youtube.com/channel/UCvS4Ty8OOPpiao7rA-dZtWg
00:00 Introduction
04:11 What Is an Unplayable Game?
06:41 Dark Souls
10:34 Pathologic
12:53 Majora's Mask
17:12 Doshin the Giant
21:08 The Value of Unplayable Games
30:49 Patreon
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#MajorasMask #Pathologic #DarkSouls
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David J Bradley - youtube.com/channel/UCyWcKIYtFaw04h1vi5EnmlA
Joshua Emerson - youtube.com/channel/UCD3i218KfufNv0OwsB-hYBQ
Zoltiboi - youtube.com/channel/UCZMRyw465TTMG_pykSfzj3A
Kevin the Arcadologist - youtube.com/c/Arcadology/about
Eyebrow Owl - youtube.com/channel/UCRJWXwOmLakVQzs94B679CA
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#IGN #GamerIdentity #ObjectiveReview
If you see this, write a comment about Bubsy 3D being a good game actually and pretend you mean it. Heck, mix it up a bit and do one of Sonic 06 too, people will love it. Also, Bubsy 3D is actually not that bad, I mean it is, but it is not THAT bad - people talk about it like it is the plague or something.
Special thanks for providing your voices!
@KingKlonoa - @eurothug4000 - @CodexEntry
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#Nintendo #PaperMario #Kirby
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#Wattam #KeitaTakahashi #KatamariDamacy
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Nichtschwert: youtube.com/channel/UCG_s3r0-g6C1NIDlaeCYJvw
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#Nintendo #SuperMario35th #Gamer
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#Moomin #Finland #History
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#Nintendo #Gigaleak #SuperMario
Disclaimer: Every copy of Super Mario 64 is personalized.
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#SonictheHedgehog #NaotoOhshima #SonicTeam
BONUS MEME
Did you see the Sonic Movie 2 hashtag movie? Cool stuff, I really liked that Hollywood Paramount Pictures and Sega Original Movies production with keywords Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Dr Robotnik and or Dr Eggman, Sonic 2, that guy Tom, Agent Stone, Tom's wife, Jim Carrey and also maybe Shadow. Do you guys have any fan theory or speculation about Sonic Movie 3 or Knuckles Series? Don't tell us in the comments, we don't care, we're just writing this to see if the video will get picked up by the algorithm. You know how it is, kids. Oh, and also, Sonic Frontiers. Sonic Origins leak speculation fan theory analysis. Playstation 5.
* Rowling has been posting more since we finished this video, in fact she is doing it faster than we can possibly respond. However we do not want to work on this one forever, so we will not bother responding to her latest outburst. In fact this only proves our final points even more.
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Special thanks to our friends:
Sophia & Snorenat → youtube.com/channel/UCJmlCcnfMlyPA2oSbb072QA
Dylan in Boyform → youtube.com/user/rob0tt4rmy
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Winterymute → twitter.com/winterymute
Filip Winther → twitter.com/FilipWinther
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Ar_crat → twitch.tv/ar_crat
Alex Saxon → instagram.com/introvertedpixel
A compilation of studies about the well being of transgender people:
http://tiny.cc/rkx0rz
WPATH's about rapid onset gender dysphoria and more:
http://tiny.cc/t2w0rz
http://tiny.cc/b5w0rz
Gender Identity Nondiscrimination Laws in Public Accommodations: a Review of Evidence Regarding Safety and Privacy in Public Restrooms, Locker Rooms, and Changing Rooms:
link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13178-018-0335-z
Impacts of Strong Parental Support for Trans Youth:
http://transpulseproject.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Impacts-of-Strong-Parental-Support-for-Trans-Youth-vFINAL.pdf
Suicide and Suicidal Behavior among Transgender Persons:
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5178031
Attempted Suicide Among Transgender Persons: The Influence of Gender-Based Discrimination and Victimization:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17135115
2018 LGBTQ Youth Report:
http://tiny.cc/aix0rz
Detransition rates in a national UK Gender Identity Clinic:
https://epath.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Boof-of-abstracts-EPATH2019.pdf#page=139
Factors Predictive of Regret in Sex Reassignment:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9570489
An Analysis of All Applications for Sex Reassignment Surgery in Sweden, 1960-2010: Prevalence, Incidence, and Regrets:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24872188
Understanding the Transgender Community:
hrc.org/resources/understanding-the-transgender-community
Lisa Littman's Shitty Paper:
http://tiny.cc/qjx0rz
Wanna see the bonkers censorship cut?
Go here → youtube.com/watch?v=Vkrd8wwJpis
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#ZombieBands #MercuryRev #ChristianDeath
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#DeathStranding #HideoKojima #PrincessBeach
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#AnimalCrossing #NewHorizons #SJWagenda
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#FinalFantasyVII #Remake #KingdomHearts
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#SayonaraWildHearts #Tarot #Cartomancy
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#Pretentious #ModernArt #Auteurs
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#Undertale #Deltarune #Lore
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#gameoftheyear #babaisyou #retrospective
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#TheLegendofZelda #LinksAwakening #Nintendo
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#DonaldDuck #Christmas #Disney
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#pewdiepie #symbols #pepethefrog
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#KatanaZero #HotlineMiami #analysis
00:00 The Punch
08:01 Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
13:34 Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
17:19 Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain
23:45 Death Stranding
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