Ooh... even not caring about the circuses still makes me culpable in revolving around them culturally? I don't like that.

Very interesting video !

Really nice video, made me think about a quote in Disco Elysium about why should we in a communism rant " In dark times, should the stars also go out? "

I've come back here and there to this game quite a few times over the past couple years, I only answer requests myself though I must admit, I always mute the OST whenever I play it though, I blame the AuDHD, I need something higher energy to make up for the dopamine deficiency of my gamer brain The game design is a neat bit of psychological trickery to minimize bad actors and maximize genuine effort and participation, I'd love to see more games attempt to try and use similar tricks to reduce toxicity, rather than employing the Counter Strike esque method of just saying "grow a spine, 4head, it's da Internet" to justify vileness I might not ever be cared about by anyone directly, but I can at least make the world a better place in some cosmic way (fitting with your star anology), and Kind Words lets me do that from time to time Great video! I enjoyed the coverage :)

I came from reddit! Fascinating video! I 100% agree with elevation, I also wrote a few requests, then after receiving letters I went and helped others. Also I do try to match my sticker with the letter theme lol. I love the music so much! I listen to some of the score from Kind Words by itself, Kind Words 2 also has some great pieces I'd love to listen to. I hope to see you at Kind Words 2 release! Maybe we can have a chat together =3 -Q

Yeah alright, you got me good with this one dude, I may have teared up a bit. I haven't played Kind Words in a while, but now I feel like I should maybe head back to it. I know you touched on more of the "science" behind this, but I do find it interesting that KW seems to completely subvert our usual experiences with online anonymized communication. Even when we think we are doing "good," does arguing with folk online ever really make a positive change? I know I still get sucked into it once in a while and I usually just leave disgruntled and a little nauseous, lol. If we're constantly having our other skills siphoned into capitalism, I'd rather use my remaining energy/kindness for something positive.

Am I riding the high of the Kind Words 2 playtest being live? Yes, absolutely, no question about it. Are you excited for the sequel, too? Mostly just excited for new stickers? Let me know below! May kindness be upon you and radiate from you in the meantime! ❤🦌❤

Thank you for this video. I feel like everything you've listed in the video, the questions you've posed, have been plaguing me all my life. They still are. My father wanted me to succeed so strongly he broke me in the process, making me afraid to even make mistakes in the first place. It's a struggle to just exist and do something, anything. I should finish playing Sable sometime.

We are trending towards the whole system collapsing, for sure. "What I want to see" is for humanity to stop being itself for long enough to avoid falling back into the same trends it always does.

Love what you doing

This video is pretty awesome, the details put in on the editing, the rythm of the writing and the way you guides us to the conclusions is pretty on par with the game itself, amazing job!

Somehow I ended up as a cleaner in a dead end job and I'm about halfway through my 20s. It'd be nice to be a super influential thinker, with a positive legacy. Maybe an artist too? What if all of this culminates in leaving behind some legacy that's there for people to learn from regardless what I do... I think I want to see what I fundamentally can't be there for. Whether I share a name with a tale of woe or a tale of triumph means basically nothing to me right now. It feels like the world will be just as better off as it was always going to be, just in a different kind of way. With that taken care of, I guess all I've got to do is just make my peace with it. People are going to learn what to do, and what not to do. Or I get forgotten and it's net neutral. Eh, whatever. I had fun.

Love sable so much, beautiful video man 🫶

This is great stuff, dude! I've never had the problem of not knowing what I've wanted to do with my life. What exactly that thing is has changed from time to time, but there has always been something. For the last 10+ years, it's been writing. I've definitely come to see the whole "go to school, then university, then get a job" path as more of an ideal, but it can certainly be made to feel mandatory. When I dropped out for a couple years, it really hurt to feel that I wasn't taking "the right path." But really, I feel like kids would be worse off if they didn't have some system to guide them. I do wish the system were better though, and as you point out, it's a travesty there are so many BS meaningless jobs. There's a video I recorded but haven't put out yet about retirement. Essentially, it's my view that retirement is a scam, bc it seems to imply that you'll want to stop working when you're older, but I feel that if you've actually found something you love or that is meaningful to you, wouldn't you want to keep doing it forever? Great video, man. Really enjoyed your thoughts

Such a high quality video and only 300 views?! Absolutely criminal!

Beautiful video. Really guided me through some ideas about things I have been struggling with since I graduated university.

As a child I aspired to ninjadom I still aspire to ninjadom some day...

"When you grow up, what do you want to see?" Thank you, my 10-year-old self really need to hear that.

Really good video, I loved it

Great video. Sable was a game that really stuck with me.

Found you via your signalis video. Pleasently surprised to find a Elden ring video after I finished the dlc. Great stuff man.

This was a quite fantastic video, and one I was very happy to watch and come across as I was looking for Signalis content. Sometimes, I guess it really is okay to just sit there and embrace how something makes you feel without looking deeper, even as much as I love to do so especially as a creator. Thank you for making it.

locking this in at 81 views, insane that this is so under-seen

Well. That explains why Soulsborne/Soulslike stick with me and why I like survival horror gmes.

What's the sweet spot for your stress in-game and stress relief? Is it something like Elden Ring? A different threshold? Something, arguably, MORE stressful? Let me know! Thanks for watching!

In a world where there are an almost comical number of ridiculous and arbitrary challenges that can't actually be conquered ("climbing the corporate ladder", "The American dream", ect), it's nice to have a place like a challenging video game which instead says, "Hey, this guy who kicked your ass? He's actually able to be overcome with enough perseverance, just keep giving it a try. You are able to win with skill and patience." Great video, hope you continue to keep making content!

As a fellow English major, I deeply appreciate the framing you set up to analyze ANALYZING this complex, wonderful game! One of my favorite videos about Signalis and video game analysis hands down

Those FMV scenes inside of the Monopoly game footage you used gave me big Fallout 1 vibes, and then my immediate next thought was about how fitting that was considering the subject material Great video!

You know, if Jackie hadn't passed the relic on to V - Jackie would have been resurrected and would be the one coping with Johnny.

Yo banger vid! This was thought provoking, really just a phenomenal video. You touched on many things I've thought a lot about, though certainly not in the exact way you've discussed them here. For instance, the draft has always scared the crap out of me (and both of my Signalis videos started off as being about that), and I think it was brilliant to pull that into this. The thought of medicine as a business is a terrifying thing to me as well. Really, I don't have much to say besides good work. Seriously impressive. Hope you're doing well, man! (I do need to play Cyberpunk though; I've owned it since launch but haven't put more than a few hours into it)

Good video. Cyberpunk, both as a genre and this particular series (2077 and its ttrpg roots), means a great deal to me - and has for years. For as grim and horrific as parts of its style and world can be, there is a multifaceted quality to the genre, a nuance beyond just the viciousness of capital and systemic decay. It is as much a reassurance to me as it is a cautionary tale. There are moments of perseverance and progress, love and community. the importance of technology and the need for personal growth. Cyberpunk shows us a world where despite it all, people continue to carry on - people keep fighting; sometimes for better ideals, arguing over what that is, and some fight to simply live in peace, and the power of this genre and the story therein is that both methods are not only okay, but are sympathetic and understandable. We are at constant war with our own contradictions and that of the larger world - the burden of when to accept the complications and when to try and change them. All we can control in the end are ourselves, against all futility and hope, and holding onto that autonomy is going to become more important than ever. Death is certain. How we live and who we choose to die as are what matters.

feel like there's alot of interesting things to draw from phantom liberty and especially songbird in regards to bodily autonomy, maybe a good basis for a similar video if this does well

Honestly, this is a lovely video essay about humanity and what makes us somewhat different then machines and animals.

Really good take on the game and the genre, hope this video gets as much attention as it deserves :)

W video

doesnt seem like any of cyberpunk is worse than nowadays. having johnny in V's brain is similar to multiple personality disorder. having a chip labeled safe but receiving a virus is the same as being poisoned or the panera caffeine lemonade scandal. having hacked for info or to make you unconscious is nothing more than having been drugged. forced into having implants (like the monk was) isnt worse than having your organs removed after getting kidnapped. all of these horrors are real already, been so for centuries. only difference is in cyberpunk you need a different defense. about easily being hacked... it IS true today. incapacitate: flash bang, tranquilizer, tear gas. remotely kill: snipers. stealing money and data: ID theft, hacking a pc, a network. as the implants evolve so will the defenses. but so as the everyday person isnt a target to ID theft or being poisoned, so wont be in the time of the cyberpunk.

I like the video but the font of the thumbnail is too hard to to read man

Can't wait to become a cyberpunk

This is a great video, soon, it will be blessed by the algorithm Keep up the good work

I do remember when I first played Cyberpunk, I had this distant thought in the back of my mind that, despite all: despite my struggles, my tries, my actions, it was all for naught. Nothing specifically made sense, nor did it change it. It was somewhat of a neon nihilism, if one can call it that. Sure, each quest made the world a bit safer, the gangs stopped acting up, the psychos were tamed, even quest lines finished, with people either wait is fired or dissatisfied. Still, everyone moved on, and we were simply stuck there, being this pushing stone for everyone else, who we meet. And it was all leading us to only one moment, when we ACTUALLY managed to make something for ourselves. And even this was only when V managed to agree on something with Johnny. To go out and start hell in Arasaka. So, while things haven't moved for us, and put autonomy practically stayed at zero, out actions helped to move others. It wasn't MY progression that mattered, it was EVERYONE else's one. The autonomy of all the people we met was progressed, to create something greater and safer. And we were something much greater than ourselves - we were the catalyst. Plus, you know, hacking others on the streets so casually seems absolutely ridiculous but so was the fact that police would carry a gun about 100 years ago, as it was unspeakable to take someone's life so casually, even if it was about dire situations. Cyberpunk simply exacerbates on the already existing concepts. P.S.: love your content! As usual, had a blast watching it! Thank you!

⚫ In the IV Circle of Greed gold pearls are better than gold coins, because unlike coins, which are made by man (Fraud), pearls are made by Nature (example the golden touch of Dionysus and the natural magic water that can turn everything into perfect gold). In Greed as monsters there are: Unicorns and Scorpions (both serpentine), Giants, Oreads (with two serpentine legs), Talos, Salamanders, Golems. Who else could be the Guardian of Greed, the Dragon Ladon (Golden Apples of the Garden of the Hesperides)? The dimension is a golden Pandemonium: boiling golden lake for the damned who push great golden stones (Avaricious and Prodigals always in boiling gold). Together with Cerberus, also Giants, Pegasi (serpentine), Satyrs, Dryads and Cyclopes guarding Gluttony. A dimension of clay sea with clay rain, with the damned just like in a clay soup. Who can be the Guardian of Lust/Pride, Python the Dragon (the Dragon as a symbol of the Vampire and therefore of Lust/Pride)? The II Circle of Lust/Pride is divided into storm of air for the Lustful and rain/sea of snow for the Prideful. In Lust/Pride as monsters there are: Serpents and Moray Eels (both with two arms), Gorgons (with a serpentine tail), Lamia (vampiric), Ophiotaurs (with two arms and a serpentine tail), Elves (vampiric), Vampires (draconid), Sirens/Mermaids (winged with a serpentine tail), Naiads, Dracaenas, Nereids and Mermen/Tritons (all four with two serpentine tails), Gorgotaurs (with two serpentine tails), Dragons (classic and serpentine), Crocodiles, Lizards, Ichthyocentaurs (with two equine legs and one/two serpentine tail/tails), Octopus (draconid), Lobsters (reptilian), Giants, Hippocampi (serpentine). Replace the Wrathful with the Envious in the Styx, and put the Wrathful within Dis with the Heretics! (Example Phlegyas, Fire of Ares, Thera's Bane, Atlas Quake, Blades of Exile) The Devils's Heresy is Wrath (example Lucifer's Heresy of Wrath which made the Devils wrathful towards the Angels, causing the War in Heaven)! The City of Dis is practically divided into three Rings: Wrathful (heretics against others), Pagans (heretics against themselves) and Heretics (heretics against God). "The City of Dis held Hell's deepest secrets and the worst violent and treacherous sinners. The fallen angels guarded it's walls and flaunted his kingdom." In Heresy as monsters there are: Giants, Griffons, Vultures, Eagles. Their ash a counterpass of the Phoenix. The Leviathan is the Prince of Envy, who destroys and devours everything. The Bog of the Forgotten from God of War 2/Ascension (along with the Barbarian Hammer, Nemesis Whip, Charon's Wrath, Scourge of Erinys) is a realm of Envy/Sloth. Now Hawks, Owls, Wyverns, Lampads, Giants, Basilisks, Crabs, Sharks, Turtles, Toads, Bats, Crows, Skeletons, Wraiths, Undead are the ones to watch over the Styx marsh. “See the souls over whom Envy has prevailed. In the warm bath of the sun they were once hateful; down here in the black sludge of the river Styx do they wish they had never been born.” “Souls indignant! How many up there now count themselves kings, that here shall lie like worms in the mire, leaving their condemnations far behind!” "The Styx, a toxic marsh. Those awash with Envy drowned again and again, choking on their own venom." It is my well-founded and proven belief that Dante by Wrath he meant Envy (with Sloth) and by Heresy he meant Wrath (with Heresy). Using Cacus as an example, shouldn't the Centaurs be placed not in the VII Circle of Violence but in the V Circle of Envy? Phlegias is the Guardian of Wrath/Heresy (VI Circle) and the Hydra (now a serpentine Poison Giantess) is the Guardian of Envy/Sloth (V Circle). Guarding the I Ring of Violence are Ravens, Minotaurs, Werewolves and Giants, in the II Ring of Violence are Harpies (Warhammer) and Hounds, in the III Ring of Violence are Colossi and Lions. Fire (storm) in the City of Heresy (Wrathful, Pagans and Heretics always in burning rock) and sand (storm) in the Desert of Blasphemy (Blasphemers, Sodomites and Usurers always in burning ash). In the I Ring (Caina) of Treachery, among the Traitors of Relatives, there are also the Traitors of Friends (because a loved friend becomes similar to a loved relative). In Fraud as monsters there are: Keres and Empusae (with reptilian arms and legs). To torment the Hypocrites, under their gold there is not lead but mercury (much more symbolic).

thanks for putting into words why I enjoy DDR, FnF, Rhythm Heaven and Osu so much

I can't imagine that a video will make me think positively of dead space 3 but I'm ready to have my mind open yup it was amazing

amazing job on the nicole section!!

Amazing video, will watch the rest. You have a knack for describing those feelings of dread man

When I first saw this, I thought it would be extremely popular. When I saw it only had less than 500 views, I was startled. I don’t usually comment on videos, but I thought I had to in this situation. This video was very interesting to me, and I can tell how much effort was put into this. This was very thought provoking and made me really think for a while about our current situation in the world. It is very much eye-opening to have to it said to you this way. Even though I was already familiar with the genre, this was the kind of deep-dive that I didn’t know I needed. Thank you so much for this and I hope your channel gets picked up by the algorithm!

Next time I will spare a spider. That's all I can say for this great video. Thanks

commenting to boost!!! it's such a well made and well researched video