Deus Ex - Story Explanation and Analysis

[@juggernikos3460]

This game was decades ahead of its time

[@talabun]

The crowd was behind its time.

[@divyanshrawat4289]

Yes

[@divyanshrawat4289]

And the most terrifying thing is that this game was released 2 decades ago!!

[@theia1653]

It's Alex Jones' world.

[@travisw5076]

@KC It was a very early game and it was one of the first times this type of gameplay was tried. That's why it was ahead of its time not to mention how the story parallels our actual world.

[@SuperBoyboys]

"Do you have a single fact to back that up?"

[@BlindBosnian]

Number 1: That's terror Number 2: That's terror

[@gmailacct9496]

@Blood in the Water big red pill. I 👁 it.. one month later from u

[@vishalhembrom5219]

Yes do your research

[@CorredorDigital_]

"in 1940 corporations paid 50% of federal taxes, today is 5%..."

[@plate.armour_0996]

yes/no

[@sponge6197]

This game pretty much changed my life as a kid, as prophetic as Kojima's meme CODEC call.

[@JCDentonCZ]

Same here, it's interesting that such impactful games got put on our paths, despite being on different consoles (unless you bought Deus Ex on PS2).

[@sponge6197]

@@JCDentonCZ I got it on PS2.

[@marisseandgale5365]

Turn the console off now

[@leegsy]

I got into PC gaming in the late 90s and I was given a computer that was old but could run older games like Doom, Command & Conquer, etc, then, a couple of years later, I got my own PC and whilst not exactly cutting edge it ran Deus Ex fine and my life changed forever.

[@mindandbody7971]

@@marisseandgale5365 Yeah, because you're living it now.

[@naveedclifton]

_"See how easily our technologies turn on us? The more power you think you have, the more quickly it slips from your hands."_ --Tracer Tong (John William Galt), _Deus Ex_

[@PrekiFromPoland]

This line gives me some Ted Kaczynski vibes, almost as it could be said by him as well.

[@orim2665]

@@PrekiFromPoland Deus Ex mentions Kaczynski btw.

[@Graham6762]

Kaczynski wasn't wrong that technology would destroy humanity, it is exactly what is happening in front of our eyes. All technology is used by the people in power to perpetuate their power and control people. It has never been used for progress to benefit everyone.

[@Graham6762]

@KC There are two factors, your level of technology and then your wisdom to control it. The idea that they know what they are doing with these autonomous drones and AI they are building is ignorant. Even nuclear fission would destroy a lot of these third world countries they are run by morons.

[@Graham6762]

@KC There is actually a resurgence of polio because of these tainted vaccines. In africa and India there is polio because of mass vaccinations. Also this computer wasn't free idiot.

[@jordancarroll9397]

I've been replaying this game every couple years for the past 20. I have to admit, it was one of the first things I thought of when COVID happened.

[@messire9837]

COUPLE of years? WAT? So what do you do every odder year, then? Unless you're a member of the GMDX mod team or something close, I need an answer.

[@thejoin4687]

The game was prophetic. It presaged a future in which in which humanity would use nano-weapons to smash up crates.

[@Snakee423]

LMAO

[@baddiegaming758]

in future we use Gapgun for silent take down

[@hamerhove]

​@@baddiegaming758stealth drones

[@dopedoh-homer]

It's all in the numbers Number 1: That's terror. Number 2: That's terror.

[@MirceaKitsune]

Terror built into the system.

[@davidoneill7554]

Get PILLS against my orders

[@AgentDanielCross]

You forgot the most important question: Why does the machine give me lemon lime instead of orange?

[@maxderrat]

It's a CONTHSPIRACEEE

[@AgentDanielCross]

@@maxderrat *Deus Ex theme intensifies*

[@Masterhitman935]

Don’t accept the lemon, reverse engineer them to burn the house that give you those lemon in the first place.

[@AgentDanielCross]

@@Masterhitman935 Imma use it to make an NVIDIA graphics card instead

[@Vonias]

The fact that Invisible War goes out of it's way to prove that their actually was a conspiracy and the maintenance people were swapping the drinks around to screw with him single-handedly justifies it's existence. I don't even care what you think about it as a game, that bit of lore was crucial and I'm glad it got made.

[@senrio56]

Sheldon J. Paccoti was one of the writers of the scripts. He has some interesting scifi books as well, if your interested in this type of scifi.

[@younggrasshopper3531]

Yes, ty 🤗

[@Relayzy1]

"Scifi"

[@thanevakarian9762]

Me when I played Deus Ex the first time as a kid: thank god the world won’t be like deus ex until I’m like 70 or 80. Me in my 30s now: fuck

[@londonbowcat1]

09:00 artifical intelligence

[@konnorrockkonnoisseur4970]

Me at 24

[@erichansen1991]

My vision is augmented.

[@Snakee423]

Im not much into books

[@JohnnyThund3r]

Deus Ex and MGS2 are more relevant in 2020 then probably any other game out there right now, probably because they both talk about a secret society of control freaks directing world events from that shadows, hint, hint.

[@JesusGarcia-wh2hc]

Don't be naive. They too are part of an agenda, pawns of the game, even if they look as the opposite.

[@pariah825]

Look up the Bilderberg Group.

[@hurmzz]

Yeah, Bilderberg group, TLC, CFR. Groups run by powerhungry people. (Don’t even dare to use the word Illuminati if you don’t want to sound like an idiot, the origin, usuage, scapegoating and everything of that word is well documented.) But they are not as “elite” as cospiracy theorist would like you to believe. Their inability to coöperate is just as big as regular people. Otherwise the population would have been chipped in the long ago don’t you think? But now you voluntarily carry the “chip” with you because it has a screen;) And you can even send your unmoderated thoughts all across the world with it;) If you still don’t get it: If the Bildergerg group was really one of the parties “controlling the world”, your reaction mentioning their name would have been censored. Remember La-Le-Lu-Li-Lo? The world is run by the creators of this world. In case you didn’t notice; politics are always laging behind. The internet was ready years before your government allowed it to you. The color tv was not introduced because the monochrome had not run it’s course yet. The patent for the 3d printer is over 3 decades old. It laid on a shelf for 2 decades because a person (like you and me) did not see a use for it. Just imagine, for the medical world alone, what difference 2 decades could have made;) In your lifetime you easily influence 1000 people. Thats 1 step away from a million. The world is run by you and me. Don’t be stupid.

[@realpathfinderorigin664]

That is the reason for this discontinued mankind divided, they bribe the square enix with Marvel's shit and millions. Also brought a cyberpunk game to forget the game, more waiting , more desirable, more forgotten. Yes square enix it was for the game's sales the discontinuation, i "believe" you. Elon musk is a puppet of New world order is the Bob page that he wants to present his self as s good guy. Why Elon you put 50.000 satellites walking around the earth? Why is the covid 19 and the digital signature in our bodies in the near future as a covid pass for working; How is the 5g, satellites ,and digital signature is connected to fully control the humanity? Elon problem isn't an A.I that is self aware, is a A.I controlled by your corrupted bosses.

[@teecredible]

@@hurmzz couldn't have ever said it better myself

[@taylormartin4346]

The more you have discussed A.I. and the control of information in our society the more I have begun to think deep and hard about it, much more than just a conversation piece at this point. This is probably one of the most important and meaningful ideas/events that will ever occur in human history.

[@Y2Kr4SHM4N]

One of these comments is aware and insightful. The other is not.

[@Relayzy1]

Industrial Society and Its Future

[@RommelAlonzo]

I remember see that Joe Rogan & Elon Musk video and started wondering if his efforts with NueraLink are a direct reference to this.

[@RommelAlonzo]

If no one knows what I'm talking about, here's a link. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/703801v4.full.pdf

[@kkeanie]

@@RommelAlonzo Thanks for the PDF. looks very very interesting. also do you think that "augments" would be a thing in the next 10 years? for 2030?

[@tropicarls]

@@kkeanie our vision will be augmented

[@nco6893]

They are he's a huge fan of the game

[@littlefela6889]

How tf did you post this 18 hours before the video was made?

[@jasonblundelldobebussing]

"...Majestic...Majestic..." A bum from New York

[@senkodan]

Two words: New York city

[@jasonblundelldobebussing]

@@senkodan, I can sum it all up in one word; self-reliance. That's what we stand for.

[@hollywoodmeow]

why contain it?

[@jasonblundelldobebussing]

It's cool. Let is spill over the schools and churches, let the bodies *HIT THE FLOOR*

[@Janemba126]

s'cool

[@moonbasebroadcasting8447]

That's the Republican platform

[@jensonkiin3678]

Elon Musk thinks he's JC Denton when in reality he's Bob Page...

[@kevindonahue2251]

To be honest, at this point I'm starting to think he knows he's Bob Page.

[@TerrorTerros]

Great vid!. I remember finding Morpheus in Deus ex as a 9 year old kid, Not understanding a word of what he said but being utterly obsessed with finding out. Definitely a shaping moment in my childhood, and I remember it very fondly.

[@neocephalon]

You almost sound like Bob Page!

[@guidoretro]

Yes! Very similar!

[@visatapani]

Yes, I think there's definitely the air of control-freaky hubris in how he sees things. And it's a ridiculous idea that trans-humanism would be necessary to reach higher states of consciousness. As those people who actually reach those states typically say - to reach them nothing special needs to be added, rather obstacles (clinging, misconceptions, beliefs etc) just need to be let go. Like one chapter of Tao Te Ching says: "In pursuit of knowledge, every day something is added. In the practice of the Tao, every day something is dropped. Less and less do you need to force things, until finally you arrive at non-action. When nothing is done, nothing is left undone. True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way. It can't be gained by interfering." And, to go on a bit of a different direction about "states of consciousness" - if by consciousness we mean that empty contentless reception that is taking everything in, there are no "states of consciousness". I.e. consciousness is the most foundational aspect of experience - all experience (including the whole world, including all people (and this one "closest" to the screen that I think of as "me"), including all thoughts and perceptions, including all these "states of consciousness" which I'd call states of mind) is just perception in consciousness, "on the screen" of consciousness. Where consciousness is in itself the most fundamental "screen" for everything. Ah, well that was a bit of a tangent, haha. Coming back to more "mundane" aspects, I think the human biological is a beautiful, amazingly "designed" organism, I think it's extreme hubris to think that we can "improve" it with our shoddy tinkering, considering that there's no reason to assume that we can ever understand it. And so far our attempts have been pretty bad - like Aldous Huxley said: “Medical science has made such fantastic progress that there are barely any healthy people left".

[@XantoS771]

Oh yes, most certainly!

[@CorredorDigital_]

Your appointment with fema should be finalized whithin a week

[@frenchyboy4804]

I can hear it a TUNY TINY bit

[@LuizGustavo213]

No dude, the most important game ever is Metal Gear Solid 2, there's this video called 'The most profound moment in gaming', made by this dude called Max Derrat (it's a great channel you should check it out by the way)which outlines why, you should check it out

[@maxderrat]

That guy's a jerk. Don't listen to him.

[@VM0451]

@@maxderrat That guy is more right about a lot of things than he'd like to admit.

[@josepunkthrashdude]

He had me in the first half 😂😂

[@shua_the_great]

@@maxderrat He knows more than you, loser.

[@hurmzz]

Pure gold👌🏻 Or should I say yellow?🤷🏻‍♂️ This channel really made me appreciate gaming as a conveyer of art and psychology so much. And fueled sort of a love-hate-love-hate-love relation with metal gear😅

[@diegorojas2049]

In these times of quarantine, your videos help me get rid of boredom and existencial dread. Thanks :D

[@maxderrat]

Glad I could help, my brother. :)

[@Kitchissime]

You're still in quarantine?

[@diegorojas2049]

@@Kitchissime Well not anymore, but we still go outside only when needed and always with masks

[@MirceaKitsune]

They also help to explain why you're in "quarantine"

[@thedude3189]

did you even watch the video??? people in power of control to manipulate the masses and spread false information and through time a processes its a form of brainwashing. I know most wont listen to real doctors such as micro biologist or even do basic research but your CNN says you dont need a mask if you're sick all though that should have been common knowledge. The one thing that proves people are brainwashed is seeing them go into restaurants with a mask on go and order food and then as they sit down take it off WHAT THE FUCK?! like they think just when they are eating it takes a time out, or when people cut holes in them and cram food in it...Idiocracy

[@Paid2Win]

You can't cover Deus Ex without also covering all of the conspiracies it references and builds it's world on.

[@Vanessinha91Pucca]

Yea but what Elon Musk forgot to say is that he isn't JC, but more a Bob Page

[@hallamhal]

Yep, consolidating wealth and power under the guise of philanthropy

[@icarus387]

He's not smart enough to be Bob Page.

[@jordydrop]

Consolidating wealth and power by overpaying for Twitter for the sake of improving free speech?

[@Duchess_Van_Hoof]

​@@icarus387 To be fair, Bog Page doesn't strike me as particularly intelligent. Mostly reckless and sociopathic. To me he strikes me as MJ12's Lucius Debeers, and that Walton Simons was the brains of the operation.

[@nothanksbro4525]

I just finished Deus Ex for the 4th time today, It's still my favorite game of all time.

[@nothanksbro4525]

Also for anyone reading this who wants to play Deus Ex for the first time, don't use the revision mod for your first playthrough.

[@MeinYellow]

Yes I'll be playing for the first time. So, what do you recommend is the best way to play this game? mod or original

[@nothanksbro4525]

@@MeinYellow I would personally recommend playing the standard GOTY edition you get on steam with kentie's launcher, which fixes configuration problems and such. Here's a guide on how to do all that: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=144316078

[@The_Ballo]

@@nothanksbro4525 Really? I played the original back in the day and now just playing the revision for the first time and don't recall any differences (although it was two decades ago). What's the difference?

[@wagnarsanchez]

@@The_Ballo Graphics, huge level changes, and some other stuff

[@keerf255]

Although the 5th step in the real world variant of the 'big plan', if you would, seems to be a slow and steady march towards global governance akin to the EU's function and operation. Speaking of the EU, Deus Ex makes some scary points about the EU considering the time the game was released, since much of that is coming true but was an unthinkable outcome for most people at the time. Also since you mentioned Cyberpunk 2077, the pentagon has released a video on the future of conflict and general state of humanity. Cyberpunk might just be the Deus Ex of our time, at least in setting ;)

[@SuperCakeKing]

I havent seen this pentagon video can u link it

[@keerf255]

@@SuperCakeKing kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3Xbln6alM6FaJo Enjoy feeling spooked🙈

[@stanksmax2945]

Let's hope or do the best possible scenario :))

[@DraftyRum]

Cyberpunk poo poo

[@keerf255]

@@DraftyRum yes. I had not expected that game to be THAT bad LOL

[@VSPhotfries]

I mean, yes, that's ONE of the endings you can choose. Very well summarized, but it's sort of 1/3 of the picture considering JC can also kill Bob and let the humans continue their soft semilibertarian governance, or just completely eliminate the internet by blowing up a central server hub (which is such a far fetched and nonsensical idea I can't believe it wasn't heavily rewritten to match the rest of the writing). All of those are pretty divergent from this one.

[@muggz.]

Doesn’t deus ex invisible war basically make all 3 endings canon.

[@oliverford5367]

@@muggz. Yeah the sequel ruined it by making it that JC merged with Helios, but the merge didn't work so the internet collapsed and the Illuminati came back to power. They tried to make all 3 endings happen although the canon is JC merging with Helios. Then in the sequel you basically have the same choices again: merge everyone with Helios, let the Illuminati rule the world, or destroy everything.

[@Leathal]

Look up SOP 303 if you think it’s far fetched to think the internet can’t be shutdown or at least heavily crippled. And nukes would likely be flying in such a scenario anyways

[@SomeNerdyGeek]

They blew up Area 51 to destroy the Aquinas Protocol that gave Page all his power. It wasn't to blow up the internet. lol

[@erikscottdebie7665]

The irony of the Muskrat’s descent into rightwing lunacy…

[@SzatanistaDzezowy]

Best game ever. Its my favorite of all time.

[@writerblocks9553]

Being able to converse with the "other" is the key to developing.

[@mjolninja9358]

Chris smith who is the *Other*

[@writerblocks9553]

Mjol ninja anything that you do not understand, anything other than “you”

[@sulfurhealer]

@@mjolninja9358 eat 5 grams of psilocybin mushrooms and you will find out

[@7TheWhiteWolf]

And going off into your own little segregated echo chamber (no matter what it is) is the death of development.

[@re.liable]

I agree. The "other" should be willing to converse too, of course. Athough I really find it disappointing that I'm so impressionable because I might only end up siding with the "other" haha

[@etienneCo7]

now we know that covid was indeed man-made and not bat-made

[@etienneCo7]

and guess what the media did about it

[@aouyiu]

Well no, SARS still spreads among bats. The lab got the idea and strain from bats and marmots, and the wet markets really helped the leak spread.

[@antonvoloshin9833]

Special thanks for placing link to Ross review of this game - couple of years ago it just completely changed my perception of this masterpiece, and up to this day it still the best and deepest review on Deus Ex.

[@kupo871]

Max Derrat gives off certain Bob Page vocal inflections. I want him to practice his Bob Page impression.

[@thisdudegotreal]

Kevin Spacey style

[@MudderShmucker]

As difficult as the pandemic was for me and many others, I have very fond memories of playing this game for the first time during the summer of 2020. A little rough around the edges, but still a blast after 20 years.

[@londonbowcat1]

13:10 surely.its about hubris

[@ARTalive01]

There is a reason why this is my favorite game of all time, and you did a fantastic Analysis of it!

[@maxderrat]

Thanks so much for your kind words!

[@ARTalive01]

Max Derrat No problem man! You always have great content and discuss things I can relate to. A big difference from the political videos elsewhere.

[@joaovictornave]

Elon would know about Deus Ex. He looked at Bob Page not as a villain, but as a role model.

[@M_CFV]

He wants to be JC (the character from this game). Which means he wants to be the irl AC. Which means JC in Deus Ex actually represents the Christian AC, the plot is gnostic

[@jcdentonunatco]

Do you have a single fact to back that up?

[@baitposter]

​@@jcdentonunatco Musk's actions speak for him

[@Duchess_Van_Hoof]

• Tech Billionaire • Gigantic ego • Ridiculous names • Into conspiracies • Takes over the media • Pressures governments

[@sixmillionaccountssilenced6721]

@@Duchess_Van_Hoof Peter Thiel is probably as dangerous. But nobody talks about him because he's behind JD Vance, Trump and has links to Mossad hahaha...

[@del3496]

This game was created by actual time travellers. I am still convinced of that.

[@artturistolt7984]

I play this game every now and then, it's a great nostalgia boost. I started playing again after a good 2-3 year break. Replacing the dialogues and text in-game from Grey Death to Covid19, gives scary accurate vibes to our real life right now. It's insane.

[@iamusdamma2637]

thats actually so true. the game is practically made by time travelers given how accurately it paralells our current world affairs. crazy how they made this game with fandom in mind of what conspiracies would look like in 20 to 30 years actually coming true just with different names. i actually want to find all the real world connections and change the ini files ingame to mention the true counterparts more exactly because they are so spot on.

[@JFDSmit-rm6tw]

That's not a chupacabra. That's a greasel, also created in a lab. As are the karkians.

[@jagerisbae6481]

The seeming obsession over Musk doesn't make much sense given that the games main themes center around anti-capitalism, corporate globalization, etc, and highlight the issues with billionaires like Musk.

[@aintnoslice3422]

plus Musk it pretty much a video game corporate villain in his own right, spreading misinformation about the virus himself so he can force his non-unionised workers back to the plants, putting their lives at risk, so he can fatten his own exceedingly high net-worth (which is underpinned almost entirely by hype, not fundamentals).

[@Protaanta]

I always thought two things - either musk wants to eventually get into ai himself so a little fearmongering goes a long way - or he is just stupid and makes an issue out of something that is not really a problem or it wont be a problem for a long time. Im not a programmer but im pretty sure we are faaaar from ai becoming so insidious.

[@aintnoslice3422]

@@JohnDoe-ys1vb Yes right, because workers (especially non-unionised workers) and employers (especially billionaires and multi-billion dollar corporations) totally have equal power in their relationship. Do you know how the mechanisms of capitalism work? You think these workers have the economic means and freedom to refuse to work when they feel their health and lives are on the line (are you going to tell me next they should just "find another job" if they don't want to risk their lives)? You really think his "arrest only me" line was anything other a narcissistic PR stunt (as are 90% of the shit he pulls)? Not to mention goading Californian authorities to arrest him (which he knew they wouldn't dare do). Listen to inside stories from floor workers just how "well" he treats the people below him. He has been spreading misinformation about the virus (most fragrantly undermining stay at home orders early in the pandemic) because he knew it would hurt his bottom line. Once again, a capitalist chose a fat bonus over human lives (what a shock).

[@aintnoslice3422]

@@JohnDoe-ys1vb you were so close to the point.

[@jagerisbae6481]

@@JohnDoe-ys1vb Objectively speaking though the main themes within the game highlight huge wealth inequalities between the rich & poor, rugged class collaboration, corporate globalization, etc, along with all the issues these things result in such as the society being tailored to what suits the elite in the game. All of this occurs within the framework of a capitalist system and is enabled as a direct result of it which is what I'm referring to. So it's not really projection when all of this is essential to the main plot points of the game and how the socio-political & economic system has a substantial impact on the world in Deus Ex.

[@mdilelio]

One of the best video on this platform. Thanks.

[@oliverford5367]

The endings are so good because there's no one right answer. You can be a luddite (destroy Area 51), a techno-utopian (hand the world to Helios) or have faith in benevolent humans (the Illuminati). Each ending is not good or bad necessarily, it's a matter of debate. I've never seen a game since which was so thought-provoking. It's the high point of games as an art form.

[@ethai1]

I also love how the game doesn't make you feel like a bad person for choosing any specific ending. The fact that to this day people still debate online which ending they thought was better, shows how well it stands the test of time.

[@londonbowcat1]

​@@ethai113:30 sex symbols and the stars (1949)

[@ethai1]

@@londonbowcat1 What

[@unr34L-]

Those high quality models are absolutely terrifying

[@user-ku5oo2cl3z]

More like low quality models. I prefer the originals.

[@unr34L-]

@@user-ku5oo2cl3z Absolutely, reminds me of Half-Life 1’s “HD models” No, they just stink.

[@ChristopherSummer89]

This is now my second favorite Deus Ex Analysis, after that of Ross (Accursed Farms). I had no Clue about that Tweet from Musk, but when you showed it, I literally threw my Hands up against Forehead, astonished about how true that Statement was. Very good too see how much more there is to those Similarities, according to your Analysis.

[@debwoods5834]

DAN 2:43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.

[@Seki1987]

This is hands down the greatest game of all time, inventory management was a bit old school but the upgrade system is something games use to this day and this game inspired so many genres of videogames and still continues to do so, it's insane.

[@yaqubebased1961]

I recommend you try out Thief: The Dark Project and Thief 2: The Metal Age, as well. Insanely ahead of their time, and there's still nothing quite like them even today.

[@Seki1987]

@@yaqubebased1961 i did play those games but although i found their narrative and plot appealing, i didn't quite like the game mechanics and gameplay, as i found it slow paced. I found MGS to be more revolutionary and they came out in the same year, actually.

[@orangutanstuff9361]

This analysis is so much more potent having watched your aion series great work

[@InGameTheoryLoL]

Nikola Tesla still waiting for us to receive our free energy he was able to harness for us. Damn JP morgan and his goons took that away from us

[@jackp492]

Anyone can gather sticks and build a fire

[@InGameTheoryLoL]

@@jackp492 I'm talking about his electricity, copper, and magnetic invention

[@jackp492]

@@InGameTheoryLoL well if you know how it works why not release it yourself?

[@jackp492]

@@InGameTheoryLoL there’s lots of ways to make free energy, but if you want to use the system your condemning you need to produce energy to fit the appliances they also build, Free energy but refraining from technology that uses free energy is a waste of time, You can’t escape thier production monopoly, it’s not just the energy

[@franciscop1192]

You made this story sp exciting. Thanks for your video. I love that game and wanted to remember that story

[@Hylonomus]

Elon Musk thinks he's JC Denton, but he's actually Bob Page.

[@londonbowcat1]

J C Denton ?

[@Spectral352]

17:26 "...To submit to regulation" "Otherwise the technology could be wielded by the wrong wrong people such as our government." Yes, let the government regulate AI, so that the government can't use AI.

[@jettgroves6424]

I think it’s funny that we are all so unsatisfied with our reality that we’re willing to go to such insane and abstract lengths to change it rather than to simply bear the burden and fix it. AI will not solve this world’s problems, it will only create new ones.

[@maxderrat]

How would you fix the problem, the burden, of misinformation?

[@jettgroves6424]

Max Derrat to put it simply, I wouldn’t. Not every problems needs a definitive radical solution. Instead, I think simply teaching people to think for themselves and encouraging individualism is the best way forward.

[@saisameer8771]

@@jettgroves6424 Basically, the Tracer Tong ending. That would be my favourite ending.

[@jettgroves6424]

sai sameer I haven’t played the game so idk about that. From what I’ve seen about this ending though, it’s not quite what I’m getting at. I’m not saying we need to go all Unabomber and eliminate all communications. I’m more suggesting that we need to simply learn to sift through the misinformation and think about it critically.

[@danboltmaker5705]

The first and easiest thing you can do to fix the problem of misinformation is to turn the TV off and stop listening to the news and politians. I'm not taking a side here with Fox or CNN, they are all liars. Let your mind decide with free thought. However that creates a new problem. My thoughts are right and your are wrong. I would rather use free thought and be wrong than to blindly follow anything.

[@juliabugara3833]

Thank you so much for the analysis, send u love and support from Hong Kong.

[@wrightblan1501]

FREE HONG KONG!

[@lhfirex]

I dunno why this showed up as a suggested video but I'm glad I watched it. Deus Ex is still probably my favorite game of all time because of the story.

[@londonbowcat1]

14:00 malevolent Icarus.

[@orhunklc3337]

I love your channel. Thanks to you, I can write more creative stories than ever

[@elbraguetabierta]

the merging man and machine will bring hell on earth

[@adamkurt471]

A hellishly ordered and punctuated cyber-society. If you think there has to be a speed limit to all the scientific and economic progress running already like lightning, think again.

[@elbraguetabierta]

@@adamkurt471 achieving material immortality in this plane must be on eof tye worat ecistences possible

[@TYR1139]

Yeah, boomer mentality

[@ryananastasiaquinn5543]

DUDE THIS IS A LEGENDARY EFFORT

[@Warhammer_lover]

It's funny how think that Musk is some kind of transhumanist, instead of just a regular business man who's popular with kids on twitter.

[@TheDsIEGE]

Looks like I might have to dig this one up from somewhere and check it out. Excellent, important evaluation and a fantastic video as always! Keep up the great work, I and many of the people I've turned on to your channel are always ready to hear more.

[@Rievven]

I have alternative theory for why musk wants AI regulation. His large company can bear the burden of regulation. However, startups cannot. Thus regulation would prevent competition from challenging his company.

[@timeforamazingchest5271]

That's the sort of decision someon would take if they are concerned with creating AI for the purpose of advancement rather than creating money, indeed.

[@mihalyshilage5826]

What im getting from this is that you dont trust tech startups to not make malevolent AIs

[@Atrahasis7]

I think the Christ figure in "JC" Denton was very well handled amidst all the other themes, Sheldon nailed it. He is the human but more than human key to solving the transcendent AI issue, he is actually "Christ" because he was just made as a prototype, as a sacrifice, but posing "a different question with a different answer" as the AI says, so its own sacrifice will be different but the same as good old Jesus Christ redeems believers from all forms of sinful bondage and oppression through his death and resurrection, reconciling god with our pain and making people aware of their own persecution . The organizations that come from Simmons and Page are very obviously the "Anti Christ" persecuting others in the name of the "victims" and world stability when we all know they just want God like power. I think the merge ending is the best possible result because JC will give the AI the perspective it needs to truly understand humanity and evolve it, without dissolving it completely. But this last bit is just my mind canon.

[@My-Name-Isnt-Important]

The quote of Voltaire at the end of the game after you merge, is very telling and sums up pretty much what you've said. "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

[@UsmevavyPanacek]

When this corona mess was starting, I immediately recalled DeusEx.

[@TheSolidlad]

btw, 6:23 is almost a word-to-word quote from the MGS2 codec call

[@benfrancois7856]

What a classic I love Deus Ex I hope that we receive a remake in 2024 Deus Ex machina means God from the machine in Latin

[@benfrancois7856]

I know this is a little off topic but I'd really like a remake of Parasite Eve

[@glenngriffon8032]

Part of the reason I'm kinda glad i didn't have a PC growing up was because eventually I finally did get my very first computer ever well into my 30's and I could go and try these old games without nostalgia. Deus Ex, especially with the revision mod, is hands down my favorite game of all time. I've played and beaten it more times than I can count. Sometimes I would finish the game and immediately restart it and appreciate the scale to which the game expands.

[@local_senpai512]

This game is the reason why I grew up not being a fool lead around by the lies.

[@maccaroni3694]

The trurh is u arent inmune to musinformation/propaganda,right now u are led by lies without u knowing

[@GnarStark]

Seeing hundreds of people with the sunglasses man as their profile pic on KZbin brought me here

[@Heeroneko]

I think you give Elon Musk too much credit, but I'm glad him mentioning Deus Ex sparked a resurgence of attention for it.

[@Yabuturtle]

Amazing that after 20 years, it still holds up. :)

[@joshuapatrick682]

What if Musk only wants the “Singularity” to occur for the promise of eternal life?

[@Furebel]

at one point you directly quoted the Patriots, nice

[@unodos149]

Folks leaning into Musk being a heroic figure a few years ago, is starting to feel very dated in older vids with him becoming a silly twitter troll nowadays lol

[@scotty2tone]

Man, you really shouldn’t have given Musk’s opinions so much weight

[@ilregiallo4151]

The duo Dedalus-Icarus remind me of Wintermute and Neuromancer in "Neuromancer" from William Gibson.

[@Indeed48]

Another fascinating analysis! I always love your analysis videos, you tie everything together so well and the presentation is clean and lean and that's a good thing :)

[@kirillheart4158]

Indian government must have rewatched deus ex intro many times

[@Davasgo]

6:25 glad I'm not the only one who sees parallels between Deus Ex and Metal Gear.

[@zilchnilton]

you forgot to mention that the physical plane represents the reflection or mirror image of the divine realm so an AI God would be the counterfeit of the true Godhead & Denton would be a counterfeit of the 'first born' Logos.

[@joshuapatrick682]

2:00 in 2015 there was an article in a major science publication talking about the moral and ethical implications of humans specifically modifying and engineering bat coronaviruses, one of the WHO labs is in Wuhan China, and the man who identified the HIV virus claimed Cov19 was definitely modified/engineered. Kind of gonna defer to the experts here. There’s also the anecdotal evidence that suggests it was here far sooner than we thought. I went down for 2 weeks with the worst illness of my adult life in January 2020 and testing could not identify the culprit as bacterial or any of the known Flu variants. Believe what you will about the official narrative but why would a power structure that has consistently lied to a misled the public for longer than I have been alive start telling the truth now?

[@D87ify]

Metal Gear Solid & Deus Ex both are my favorite

[@benmorrow1701]

Very well done and thought-provoking summary. Thank u!

[@vidividivicious]

Taking musk seriously... this video aged like fine milk

[@maxderrat]

I understand not liking Musk. At the moment, I don't have a positive opinion about him personally, aside from stuff that is relatively difficult to condemn (like providing Internet to the Ukrainians). That said, I don't think it's necessary to condemn a whole video on account of that one element. Maybe that moment aged like fine milk, but I don't think it poisons the quality of the whole video (or poisons the underlying point I am trying to make). I mean, look at your screen name. I'm guessing you like Ender's Game? How do you feel about Orson Scott Card's views on gay people? Does that poison the quality of the books?

[@PeriCRISTO]

@@maxderrat bruh 😂.

[@kevindonahue2251]

@@maxderrat It was your conclusion to the video, yeah we can judge it based on that. And it's only aged better over the last year. Guy really was a good one to put your faith in to solve misinformation crisis wasn't he.

[@nou712]

@@maxderrat You failed to realize that Musk is more like Page. A more incompetent one thankfully but still he is more similar than dissimilar. Not that it'll matter if the election goes to Trump, because then he wins anyway.

[@joshuapatrick682]

6:00 except the internet in our world is just a vehicle for commerce and advertising. It wasn’t always this way, but especially in the last decade we have seen it sanitized and scrubbed of anything that could be construed as “provocative

[@XAnihilator]

Elon Musk: AI must be regulated. Also Elon Musk: Let me put a microchip in your brain! Nothing to see here!!1!

[@Duchess_Van_Hoof]

The murder chip. What's the survival rate of that thing?

[@eno6712]

Literally watching this plan in near full effect a year later

[@blzahz7633]

Just came to see if there are any JC avatars in the comment section

[@shamusson]

Yes

[@gamingfury8525]

Yes

[@mrcodcommando3939]

-simpsons predictions -snake game video -deus ex conspiracy Wow

[@londonbowcat1]

What is the snake game ?

[@JayySuavve]

The Homeland Security bit cracked me up 😂

[@cyberlingbot3d896]

Great video again, these are the best kind of videos.

[@brucanthwood]

Wait, is this where that popular thumbnail comes from? It always looked like the terminator?

[@OLee82]

Which thumbnail?

[@crisaxel2740]

This was a great video man! Just bought the collection and the first game was giving me alot of problems so this helped not just get me up to speed but added a lot of really interesting information outside the game as well!

[@RyuBeats]

This is the most important game every made. I've always said this, Ellon thinks he's the guy in the game.

[@FinnTheBee]

The real question is... Why are you locked in the bathroom?

[@eutytoalba]

"What's the difference between conspiracy-theories and facts? Apparently, between three weeks and 25 years."

[@ray101mond]

This game's vision is augmented.

[@CrashBandicootFan100]

Once Musk dons the shades, we'll know shit got real (regarding this topic). But honestly he kinda looks like JC to me. At least in that cover art.

[@LightSpar]

Thank you for this, this game has been relevant and revolutionary for many years in my life, It still amazes me to this day!

I'd love to see this game remastered and tweaked. A fucking classic!!!😍

[@danboltmaker5705]

He actually showed some clips in this video from the remastered version and there are mods for this game some of which are graphics mods that can bring some of the quality much closer to today's standard.

[@CalaVdarivdavd]

God bless you, sir!

[@londonbowcat1]

17:30 Lucy Suchman reminds it is not about regulation

[@Nethan2000]

Right, this thing about "misinformation" is nowhere to be found in the game. In fact in Deus Ex, misinformation is usually intentionally perpetuated by the entities wanting to hide their actions, like UNATCO and MJ12. Conspiracy theories are the thing that turns out to be true.

[@visatapani]

Yes, both in the game and in reality. And that whole line of thought was weird and propagandist both with relation to the game and reality. Of course there's a lot of misinformation everywhere, but it has become quite clear that the elite-controlled mainstream media is the biggest facilitator of it. And the MSM is so unanimous in its viewpoints that it's clear that a lot of it is coordinated. The control-freaky oligarch elite ("illuminati" in the game) is not worried about "misinformation", it's worried about true information. In fact the controlling elite uses misinformation to control people, and its biggest threat is that people learn too much truth. Here's an example of co-ordinated brainwashing from the mainstream media from the real world: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qIangWmbarNsndk ('This is what mind control looks like. This is Operation Mockingbird' - if it gets taken down, you can probably find it with that phrase or with 'this is extremely dangerous to our democracy', if not on youtube, on Bitchute or LBRY etc).

[@hennyzhi2261]

"Jesus Christ Denton..." "Why yes, yes I am"