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@quicksilvertongue3248 2 ай бұрын

I haven't been able to find anything other than this game by googling "dactopindalism"; did they just make up a word for some fictional phrenology-esque practice, or is this a real thing that the Internet has failed to archive references to, perhaps because it is was misspelled (or because "they" don't want us to know)?

@quicksilvertongue3248 2 ай бұрын

Doctor Grout is easily one of my three favorite characters in the whole game, which is quite an achievement given that he never appears onscreen. I really hope maybe he'll turn up in some ancillary work if the upcoming Bloodlines 2 ends up being successful, unlikely though this is in the current post-Gamergate climate of the struggle game industry.

@jackal7952 Ай бұрын

I don't think that the creators of the next vtmb game, or even this one, really understands the characthers, story and the narrative themselves, sadly

@maracujaizsrbije6738 11 ай бұрын

My favorite mission in the game

@gzapray7203 Жыл бұрын

Ironically he failed to perceive the real threat in his life: LaCroix.

@BloodyBay 2 жыл бұрын

10:04 "...dark whisperings of a *_macabre and formless_* menace, the approach of which portends an end, an end to all of this!" Wait a second. Ming Xiao killed Alistair Grout at Sebastian LaCroix's behest. Ming Xiao is a shapeshifter with Flesh Shintai. Her true form (if she even has a true form anymore)? A large, watery, *formless* blob which you can cut apart to turn into more blobs. And "macabre" means dead...or UNdead. Grout saw Ming Xiao coming and he knew who sent her to kill him! *_WHY HAVE I NEVER PICKED THIS UP BEFORE?_*

@eaglescott17 2 жыл бұрын

I had a headcannon about the "John" that's mentioned. What if this "John" gnawed off his arm and eventually escaped the mansion altogether, only to eventually change his name and become a seller of prosthetics?

@BlueBedouin 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine if Grout met Elimelech

@kayyeti3422 2 жыл бұрын

This game is perfection.

@ianmcdonald6617 2 жыл бұрын

A phrenologist doesn’t really have much of a leg to stand on criticizing Freud.

@alyantza 2 жыл бұрын

hello, Garithos and wow human male voice actor!

@thurenv 2 жыл бұрын

"My glass is very cracked yet very very clean"

@possessedslig 3 жыл бұрын

What a performance. 👏

@GrimgoreIronhide 3 жыл бұрын

This reminds me strongly of The Great Divorce, where one of the ghosts in purgatory is lamenting that the art movement he was a part of would never have gone out of style if all its adherents hadn't died. When the protagonist points out that thats true of everything the artist ghost gets mad and insists that its different in his case.

@dwarrow25 3 жыл бұрын

This game was amazing.

@regnbuetorsk 3 жыл бұрын

i - must - learn - this - accent

@oldscorp 3 жыл бұрын

Dr. Grout isnt the skeleton in the bed. If you unlock the door left and go through the maze, instead of going right through the dungeons, you will reach a point where you pass by many mannequins that 2 seconds later are all aranged facing you and right behind you. It takes mastery at both celerity and obfuscate to achieve that. He is still there, screwing around. He was the malkavian primogen, he knew they were coming for him as is evident from his recordings, he has auspex and dementation which means he sees it coming, he can hear and smell you through the walls and hears voices and has visions that warn him. He has celerity to move faster than the eye can see and obuscate which allow him to move around while invizible or take on the appearance of anyone. Theres no way he got ganked in his bed while watching "Friends". What about that "faustian bargain" he had to make ? With whom? Kuei-Jin ? Sabbat ? Inconu ? Lacroix's rivals ? We dont know. We know he was the malkavian primogen, and the primogen are the smarter vampires behind the princes of the Camarilla. And this one was the primogen who knew Lacroix was playing everyone and plotting with the Kuei-Jin.

@calorinedarkness5232 3 жыл бұрын

Adds up.

@Fernoll 2 жыл бұрын

Good theory, but since when Malks have Celerity?

@TalonGrim 2 жыл бұрын

vamps can learn physical disciplines albiet with extra cost since its out of clan.

@Drakhesh 2 жыл бұрын

There's also the long-standing theory involving skeleton in the bed. Even accepting the explanations that devs did not have to follow lore to the letter and no other vampire despite their age leaves even skeletal remains, it serves only as a proof the death was faked. By the standard established within game itself, no vampire leaves any evidence of it's passing, save for the ashes - and suddenly, Dr. Grout is the only one who left behind himself a skeleton. It would appear he struck a bargain - perhaps with the Kuei-Jin, since it was Ming Xiao who was hired by LaCroix to kill Dr. Grout. She allowed him to leave, and left behind a fake skeleton, knowing it'll be a young and inexperienced kindred who'd be sent to confirm the doctors death - so inexperienced they would be fooled by it and accept it as the obvious sign that doctor had died.

@shezyam460 2 жыл бұрын

late reply, but none of that is vanilla

@KingLich451 3 жыл бұрын

4:48 hahahah... aah.

@XelrisMZ 4 жыл бұрын

"Damn it all, now I'm doing it too." I could listen to this guy all day.

@nomadjensen8276 3 ай бұрын

I cracked up at that part too. The entire monolog is just spectacular. This is why I always pick world building an story over graphics. Stuff like this is what makes the game feel alive an halve depth. Sure nice graphics are great and help make the game feel alive too but they cannot substitute for great dialog an story.

@khlavkalash8693 4 жыл бұрын

the fact that dr. grout and arthur kilpatrick have the same voice actor is still baffling to me. fantastic performance.

@abeladam5997 3 жыл бұрын

@PatienceKiss 2 жыл бұрын

The key master and the chess master

@IsetMeritAmon 9 ай бұрын

Really?? Wow

@Idontwannashutup 7 ай бұрын

No shit? Didn’t even know it was the same guy

@alienzru Ай бұрын

@@abeladam5997Me rn wtfff

@Orochimaruswife1 4 жыл бұрын

The dialogue in this game is so well written

@LCTesla 4 жыл бұрын

it's been a while since I played this... was it ever revealed who or what spoke to Grout and got to him in the end?

@KingLich451 3 жыл бұрын

not in the game, no.

@mariuszsobolewski9839 3 жыл бұрын

@@KingLich451 LaCroix. Of course it was LaCorix.

@KingLich451 3 жыл бұрын

@@mariuszsobolewski9839 Yeah I was thinking of that, too. Probably it was

@ElijahW2003 3 жыл бұрын

I always assumed it was Ming Xiao since she was the one who left the scene disguised as Nines

@DM-of7ys 4 жыл бұрын

Dude this guy would have had some good quests

@petrusjnaude7279 4 жыл бұрын

My favourite part of this quest is listening to these recordings.

@LordLazaruss 4 жыл бұрын

Imagine a conversation between Dr Grout and V (for vendetta) :D

@Bobcat665 4 жыл бұрын

When it comes to 'the one he shall not name', I originally thought that Grout's killer was Grunfeld Bach. I then thought through Grout's initial descriptions of the "one powerful vampire" he was terrified of and thought it was Cain; but, no, Cain never held any political office in L.A.'s branch of the Camarilla - THAT was LaCroix.

@Chibiruda 3 жыл бұрын

Grout saw what Sebastian hid deep within. The madness of being surrounded by enemies and power to take them on but a breath out of his grasp. With a hunger to do anything to obtain it.

@bujubanton3829 3 жыл бұрын

which is funny because if you play as a Malkavian he call Lacroix ¨the jester¨ but them again our version of Malkavian seems to have a level of clairvoyance in his/her madness to the point he/she even spoiled the game in several chances with the things he say

@UtubeH8tr Жыл бұрын

It goes without saying. Sadly, Malkavians have knowledge they should not know but do anyway.

@zombiewafle 4 жыл бұрын

Oh shit, that's Garithos from Warcraft 3

@KingLich451 3 жыл бұрын

You got it! Hahaha

@pnutz_2 2 жыл бұрын

and the hotel owner from john wick, least that's what I thought anyway

@DhantExMachina 4 жыл бұрын

My mind left my body will follow

@MrPatters 5 жыл бұрын

This segment of the game reminds me of Psychonauts.

@williamacheson3569 5 жыл бұрын

I watched this video and have become a far more insightful individual lol

@dianaarcticfox5832 5 жыл бұрын

I feel like this is how Stephen Fry-turned vampire would sound like

@daleksupreme2913 5 жыл бұрын

Love listening to Grout and the Deb of night on an mp3 player, at night going to sleep pretending it's all real 8D

@HodlinC 5 жыл бұрын

3:25

@LukeKoun 5 жыл бұрын

1:46 Another unfortunate casualty to tide of time; insane asylums. Fucking LOL

@Chrisiamtheluciddream 6 жыл бұрын

Grout was awesome.

@michaelwright8896 6 жыл бұрын

Does anyone know what dactopindalism means?

@lucasflowers2774 6 жыл бұрын

I'm fairly certain it's a made-up word, as I could only find results from bloodlines about it; however, if I had to guess, maybe dacto = dactyl = fingers? No idea on the -pindalism part, though.

@michaelwright8896 6 жыл бұрын

lucas castleberry Pind means swing and ism means process of doing something so maybe its the process of cutting someone's fingers off.

@Iksvomid 7 ай бұрын

It's inspired by dactylomancy, an old belief that a ring can be used to represent a certian day/sky body.

@eddymetal 6 жыл бұрын

The jabs at Freud were AWESOME. Dude was a quack.

@Haelikor 5 жыл бұрын

@Afqwa Yeah but one of them is a prophetic psychic crazy vampire. So he's got that going for him.

@GabrielRodrigues-xs6jp 5 жыл бұрын

The line between madness and genius is a fine one. I highly doubt that a simple "quack" would impact the psicology as much as he does this day

@blueskull7496 5 жыл бұрын

@Afqwa But his manner of speaking is far more entertaining then Freud

@XxLeCaptainxX 4 жыл бұрын

@@GabrielRodrigues-xs6jp Psychology is a psuedoscience.

@XxLeCaptainxX 4 жыл бұрын

@David Jones It's proven that many normal things throughout people's day such as stress, anxiety and more pernicious things like triggers are down to chemicals and physical connections in the brain. Psychology doesn't examine these. It examines the superficial things and tries, sometimes successfully but mostly not, to try and have the patient control these behaviors. Freud and Lacan were specifically focused on treatment within their own times without the technology to observe the brain in detail, and therefore tried to judge the nature of the mind through subconscious mental forces such as the Id (unattained desires) and et cetera. But if you look at case examples of Lacanian psychotherapy, you can tell that these were mostly just general concepts to apply in therapy. Almost like a rulebook for mental training. With advances in neuroscience, that will bring about the greatest successes in mental healthcare. If you want the school of 'psychology' that deals with this, look up Behaviorism.

@alanwylie6835 7 жыл бұрын

What a waste he would have been amazing to talk to in game especially as a Malkavian

@KingLich451 3 жыл бұрын

i was really excited to meet him, especially as a malkavian myself. Ah well...

@themanwiththecrystaleyes464 7 жыл бұрын

Only some can handle our blessing Grout, you should have taken advantage if it brother of the broken mind.

@AMcGrath82 7 жыл бұрын

Depends on how you define "handle."

@devorantemmagnus4537 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks, was a big time saver ☜(˚▽˚)☞

@ndaemon1718 7 жыл бұрын

how true about freud :)

@Br0kenMask 8 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, the blissful gurgling of the lobotomised <3 :'D

@Weeping0Willow 8 жыл бұрын

XD Grout is great!

@trassage 9 жыл бұрын

I just cant stop listening to it for 3 days already. I think i might go a little insane and learn it by heart)

@Weeping0Willow 9 жыл бұрын

+Женя Шатуха Well that would be pretty cool in fact :)

@maksphoto78 11 жыл бұрын

Since no one has uploaded Bruno's speech at Giovanni mansion, I'm gonna do that. Some interesting things about the sarcophagus there.

@Weeping0Willow 11 жыл бұрын

Oh my! That's wonderful :) I want to listen to it!

@skeletonking4119 5 жыл бұрын

Yes please!!

@Celestria277 4 жыл бұрын

Still waiting on that video ;)

@bufalosan 2 жыл бұрын

there was a speech? my brujah ass went for the kill straight ahead lmao

@BloodyBay 2 жыл бұрын

@@bufalosan Oh, there's a speech, all right, and it takes a good, long while before it loops. I squatted outside the conference room's door (the one that Bruno bursts through when it's time for action) and listened to the whole thing while I was playing through with my Tremere! 🙂