We're a long way from Marble Hornets and Everyman Hybrid, but this piece gave me the same enthusiasm as those, the same investment, thanks Nick

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1:31:14 so its a cognitio hazard, something that once you know about it it starts to affect you

Its so far a massive challenge to just finish it because of how god damn annoying Johnys chapters are

The Phase 4 bit definitely feels like a further exploration of the themes of Folding Ideas' "I Don't Know James Rolfe" and the situation the titular KZbinr finds himself in.

the cadence wally uses when he's "Like That" reminds me of when people like me are in extreme burnout shutdown and are forced to talk to communicate.

I would buy sam hains tape in a heartbeat, if not for the fact that i lack the physical strength to subdue another human being.

I love generative AI.

NM: ArE yOu ReAdY KiDs?¿ AYE AYE NIGHT MIND 😭🙌🏼

i don't think this was the intended meaning at all, but if we're talking perception, i can't help but personally take away that this story is about maddison. i was a teenage girl growing up in a bit of a madhouse myself, and i keep circling around to her. in the main film, she's so desperately in need of help and the family ignores her for being "dramatic" until it's too late. that hits home. mixed with how she's constantly in the bathroom trying to avoid the other people in the house (and the cameras). she's the least focused on besides the grandmother, her home has been entered by two new people at the will of her mom and they immediately seem to become the focus of the household. she doesn't want to be in the house. her parents are falling for a delusion and projecting it onto everyone else. personally, i think the mom "diagnosed" her with lynks using the newsletter test, rather than address that she's a teenager who is suffering. to me personally, she's the only one in the house who isn't falling for the madness and she can't stay there. even the title feels pointed. "this house has people in it". not a home. not a family. a house with people in it. maddison's exclusion from the wider narrative speaks so loudly to me. she's the only one who actually shows symptoms of a horrific condition. and she lands on the mattress, this isn't what hurts her. but then she vanishes. she removes herself from the story. she suffers and for what? to be told she has an imaginary disease instead of being helped? again, i don't think this was what the creators intended but if it's all about perception......... i see you maddison. i'm so sorry.

49:10 you know who this mf look like lowkey? [the silence from dr who] LOOK! /ref

I figured it out with the Doctors death..he is killing those who have the power over life or death...the colonel sends soldiers to die, the dealer kills, the Dr and firefighter can save people. The id theif literally has the power over someone's life.

finally an ARG i watched BEFORE night mind covers it lol

hanging out with the pineapple was chill af 😎🍍

The birds work for the *bourgeoisie* (this originally had the zalgo text, but I looked it up and they said it was a no no because it can be flagged as spam so...just pretend...)

The algorithm

the real sad part of this is youtube trying to change it's color to slightly pink and making the whole red muse thing kinda wrong

Those people are crazy and they have a pink ghost thingy in their house

I remember watching the theories with my sister because we were interested and we always found the muse parts strange and unusual. It's funny to see now that I'm into ARG's I can recognise that it is one.

I've just returned from watching Don't Feed the Muse and HOLY COW that was awesome!

Its amazing hearing how you've watched him for years, and seen him grow, and are truly proud of him. I'm glad I could watch this video.

Plot: The final frontier

at 1:11:48, why a pineapple? what do you do if you dont have a pineapple?

Fuck yeah dude, this video was awesome. No matter what kind of horrendous bullshit I deal with, Night Mind always brings me comfort and helps me through it. And I doubt I’m alone in saying that.

I also watched promos years ago, and a bunch of the horror shorts. The dude’s like a kindred spirit to me, and I’ve only spoken to him twice through comments. His whole sense of humour and creativity is so relatable, and his ability not to take himself too seriously is so respectable. He also has a genuineness and humility that I find very refreshing. Pizza Time Pizza is also great.

This was a fantastic watch and dissection of the whole Alex Bale KZbin.... ARG and History? I don't even know what to call all of it. But, uh. Far more important some of those parts at the end were pretty viceral. Either you've taken your already impressive voice acting skills up to the next level or this hit home for you. Which brings me to my intended point; You Good Nick? Like, you doing ok? Do you want to stop doing ARGs or expand your content but like, you've found its not as successful or like, are you unhappy doing KZbin or something? That last bit really made me worry about you dude. I get it, I'm some nobody on the internet but like. I dunno. There's nothing I can say that would help I because any thoughts I could offer would be from some random guy who can't know what's going on. But if its just the voice acting then like, holy shit dude. Totally other level stuff compared to basically anything I've heard.

So TL;DR - the guy is a secret genius.

an arg with in a arg thats Argception.

no hate but this was ur most skizo video yet

What's the point of this unfiction?

Wait, can someone clarify the ending for me? How did mother get blown up is all the things got assimilated to her in the forest place? Did they assimilate into her then mother went back into the HR department?

To be fair, The Dark Knight Rises IS a flawed mess. The worst of its plot holes are: 1) broken backs don’t work like that 2) stock markets don’t work like that and 3) explosives laced concrete doesn’t work like that. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a fun movie. But if you need to disengage your brain in order to enjoy a movie, then I think we can agree that it’s flawed.

My version of the spongebob videos is a series of videos I made "reviewing" KSP designs made by others. I loved it. It was painful. I hate it. I want to do it again. I dread doing it again.

This video made me cry at the end. I DO understand. I didn't realize just how much this was about the flip side of my experience. I'm the failure because I stopped feeding the muse. But it's also painful to succeed and keep feeding it.

I keep commenting because I keep thinking I'm at the end of this video, when I haven't actually quite reached it. "It will be the name you refer to yourself as in your head" hit so fucking hard. I WAS Guard13007 for years. When I eventually realized that name doesn't fit ME, I tried to change it. But that never really worked. It is the name I saddled myself with. I can't escape it.

I fell down. A fluke. @guard13007 if you want to see the remains. ;p

Why do I keep finding things that remind me of my own experiences running a channel? About a decade ago, I made it, briefly. A couple million views, a thousand dollars.. but it hurt.

I'm at 2:37:50 and feeling a little scared. See, I've had a lucid dream that I woke up from. And then I realized I was still asleep. And I woke up. And I was still asleep. I went through a cycle of false awakenings SEVEN times. I spent the whole day after that afraid I was still asleep. I was crying. Thinking about the meta-level here and depiction of psychosis just reminds me that I've nearly been there before. What if I don't wake up, again?

I knew of Pizza Time Pizza, and that Alex Bale had done other stuff. When I watched the Spongebob videos, I just enjoyed them at a surface level. I loved the twist of the muse but assumed that was the only thing going on there. I wasn't going to open this video, but the run-time intrigued me. How can you make 3 hours out of explaining something that's itself only a couple hours, mostly of spongebob theories which are obviously only the ignored surface layer? I must've missed something. Dear God. There's SO MUCH MORE.

Happy meat farm AND spongebob? Reality broke again >:/

Putting your cat at the end really added an emotional layer

..... oh my God a AAA arg by Alex Bale! SPEAK THIS INTO EXISTENCE! FURRIES! KPOP ARMY! MAKE IT HAPPEN!

i was teaching at an english camp this week and my class theme is spongebob... so our class chant is "are you ready kids!?" the camp just ended and when you said that, flashbacks from this whole week just zoomed through my mind ahha

This visuals in this series are off the charts. A lot of "tall thing looming in then darkness" shots like at 12:30 that look fantastic. According to a comment further down a photographer is behind this project and you can def tell. My only super minor critique is that it kinda drags on. I'm not saying there needs to be a jump scare every episode or anything, but it def could quicker escalation. Almost feels like things ramp down since the first or second episode has the best scare in the series, which is the grey figure sitting in the chair that's visible in the motion blur.

Hell of a trip watching this video and finding out a bunch of things I’ve been vaguely aware of or seen show up on my recommended have actually all been the same narrative this whole time.

I thought I was genuinely losing it when we were talking about conspiracy Carl. It felt like I ended up in the wrong timeline because I could have sworn Cynical critic was the channel that was applying pressure to Alex because of a muse, so much so I had to go look it up to make sure I wasn’t losing it.

Alex Bale knows the KZbin algorithm more than almost anyone. Not only did he seem to know making Spongebob related videos would get a crapload of views, but he knew making ragebait, contrarian movie reviews would get him a decent amount of views too, all in the name of the storyline.

I loved this deep dive of a project I’ve been following for so long! But in the end, I found myself struggling. This hurt. Because it’s not just content creators. Some of us live balancing on this tightrope. Being well-liked for being the clown when you’re harboring so many deep sorrows. Knowing you have to smile. They love you when you smile. You HAVE to smile After all, you don’t want to let them down, do you?

I know Alex bale from his pizza time pizza series I love him sm

46:01 my bathroom after twenty consecutive minutes enduring last nights adventurous meal