Fringy FINALLY Plays SOMA - Part 1

[@Dixon_Uranus]

"Watching Fringy FINALLY play Soma is the only thing that brings me joy in life..."

[@TrashPandalorian]

That meme is top tier.. and is one of my only joys in life

[@bryannorton8945]

The fact that brings joy to your life is the only thing that brings joy to my life

[@kungfufish]

Fringy: Spends half an hour thinking hard about deleting data or not based on completely ridiculous hypotheticals Also Fringy: Brute forces 100% of the puzzles with no thought or contemplation or consideration of his surroundings

[@aa6731]

The immersion of Simon saying “Torono” and everyone else saying “Toronto” makes me happy.

[@joebro2670]

"I feel thin, like fringy stretched across to much soma." -bimbus pilbug

[@jamesmurray3162]

Fringy humming under the sea as he slowly crawls around the ship is priceless.

[@kasra8255]

Next thing Jay'll upload a video titled: "So I watched the Lord of the Rings Trilogy."

[@kelp7060]

Nah, he wants this trolling to last a decade first.

[@atomspliter3493]

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[@Th3Cused1]

Wolf: Peter Jackson’s King Kong? Jay: I’ve seen Percy Jackson

[@wytho3751]

"Looks like a very very dark green goo....NOT MINE... but someone's." - Fringy, 2023

[@wearywanderer7018]

34:05 😂

[@Soliena]

It's not polite to leave your goo around, whenever I secrete green goo, I clean it up myself.

[@Dutchyman]

I was completely in one line with Catherine's frustration when Fringy was trying to upload all the wrong brainscans at the simulation puzzle.

[@Cybershroom]

So happy that Fringy gets to enjoy SOMA, it's a goddamn masterpiece...

[@MagerBlutooth]

Pretty cinematic when Fringy looks up the Akers profile on the computer only for him to immediately encounter Akers for the first time.

[@grimm_satisfaction1292]

I swear, Fringy going through Akers and the Proxy had me _STRESSED..._ Every time he stopped stealthing, I was like "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! STAHP!!!" 🤣🤣🤣

[@deforesterd]

fringy when the monsters teleport now, Fringy: THEY TELEPORT NOW? Catherine: They teleport now

[@grandarkfang_1482]

It's been 84 years...

[@arattactician5697]

We can finally rest easy...

[@phpTrash]

ive never played soma & this is a sick way to experience it first time tbh. unlike a lot of boring channels/streamers your commentary is actually adding to the experience; focussing on the implications of everything & the moral dilemas

[@OutsideTheTargetDemographic]

"Fringy is the most ethical host on EFAP" Today, we are going to put that to the test.... 😅

[@garretthayden6355]

I enjoyed Fringy doing the big think every time there was a choice presented

[@OutsideTheTargetDemographic]

@@garretthayden6355 Impressive how they change the value of their game from "the story we told is why you should buy this game" to "The choices and philosophical ramifications YOU struggle with, are why you should buy this game".

[@NoPantsBaby]

Stream Fringy: The ethical quandary does have me boggled! LP Fringy: Oh boy here I go unplugging again!

[@rosswalkman9652]

@@NoPantsBaby I liked it when he said”it’s unplugging time!” And unplugged all over the place.

[@TheAdarkerglow]

Wish he'd stream on KZbin. I know a lot of people like the Twitch interface, but I don't. Still nice to see it afterwards.

[@ClassicSteve]

I'm sad that Fringy's God of War Ragnarok stream seams to have gone from Twitch 😮

[@Steel_Rabbit]

@@ClassicSteve It's been months since this comment but if you still want to find them they're on this channel in the "Fringy Stream Archives" playlist. They're just unlisted I think.

[@pickledblowfish6178]

I didn't even know about this channel. What a Christmas gift to me.

[@HolyApplebutter]

I swear, every time Fringy goes near Carl's switch I tense up.

[@provisionofgrief1473]

Towards the end of this video, after 15 seconds of indecision...... "Well, we can't wait here forever." 2015 to 2104 Simon's mind lay in status.

[@aaronmueller1560]

Heck yeah, it finally happened! So excited to hear Fringy use this game as a reference in future conversation, and excited to hear his thoughts on it as I watch through it now!

[@aesiddoway]

3:07:05 anybody else watching just casually stop looking at the video in solidarity with Fringy just in case? 😅 Maybe I’m just a scaredy-cat, but I find this game utterly terrifying.

[@Redtornado6]

Sorry your not allowed to be scared because soma isn’t a horror game 🤷‍♂️

[@rolandthorne79]

This reminds me a little of the story, "I have no mouth and I must scream".

[@Soliena]

3:30:45 I've seen maybe a dozen playthroughs of Soma, and I've never encountered Alan on the Zeppelin scanner before! How neat

[@-JaggedGrace-]

57:05 - I'm sure a lot of people smiled when he said this

[@theshogunone223]

Yay! Finally! Looking forward to seeing your journey through this masterpiece!

[@braydoxastora5584]

Soma: what a bleak setting fringy: under the sea la la la

[@PowerfulSkeleton]

As the spiders foretold...

[@mordirit8727]

They tell a lot of stuff to the children of people who research them in the Amazon before they die.

[@Soulwrite7]

" Okay another transport ... not working but ... WAU okay gees ... " (06:25:18)

[@g0nkdroid]

I hope theres some full efap review and discussion of soma with the boys at some point id LOVE to hear all their thoughts on this game, its a freaking masterpiece

[@aa6731]

Boy, do I have good news for you.

[@Nabekukka]

Thine wish hath been granted, o' brother partaker of the arachnid dairy substances of the longoid society, rejoice, for the convocation of thoughts was massive.

[@sithsaiyan4529]

EFAP 260.

[@dandybus1582]

I finished this game for the first time a few days ago. Listening to Fringy talk through his thought process helped me come to terms with my own thinking. This has been incredibly therapeutic.

[@colinwalker4824]

Seeing the frongè play this brought so much joy into my life. (Not a boogie reference, a sincere description of my feelings)

[@liamdunnie]

Shame i missed this, such a brilliant game. Glad Frongolds finally got round to it :)

[@DianeCee57]

Wow Fringy, way to go. If it wasn't for EFAP I would have no idea about any of this stuff.

[@leosorghum6867]

5:42:45 Finally. Glad to know Fringy's not an antinatalist.

[@Rom859]

Ay the VoD is here!

[@drunkenpharmacist]

The frog play soma now this just made my sunday evening

[@grantdreyo2585]

Fringy is our hero

[@SideBurns]

This’ll be a Cosmoronic for the ages!

[@TriplePalindromous]

Dang, now I have to play it as well for the eventual discussion

[@bobbbbEE]

It's irritating that he just seems to block lambda from his mind entirely even though every conversation with Catherine very clearly shows she's at lambda

[@wearywanderer7018]

IT’S ABOUT TIME The most anticipated event in the last 6 years of my life. “Game’s not very spooky so far, maybe Joseph A has got a point” How DARE YOU lol “Well I certainly ain’t using it on him” Yes, He’s a good boy The only differences between current Simon and original Simon are the experiences current Simon has had down here. Sure he’s changed since realizing that the world ended and he’s a machine, but otherwise he IS still the same person. A personality is the culmination of your life experiences, current Simon still has ALL of his experiences.

[@wwyd4akb]

The pacing on this game is goddamn impressive. Sucks you in with the philosophical tone, then bam! evil robots! Then you're the evil robot! then you're a confused fem-cyborg from the past! Then straight up bodyhorror and psychopathy. all with transhumanism, AI and post-apocalypse threading it together.

[@bradenmickan4789]

59:22 one kill one death

[@DeadManReviews]

Fringy U R Awesome!

[@provisionofgrief1473]

What did the robots ask you: 1.) Don't kill me., 2.) Get help, 3.l Get help. None asked for death, even Amy. Is it right for me to decide life vs death, especially if I'm in same situation. Is my need for answers more important than another s life. Who said Amy's current condition was final. Maybe wau was still repairing her and I saw her in mid repair?

[@provisionofgrief1473]

Approx 3 years ago, I was in despair over analogous moral questions. I was very perplexed. Walking home, I came to a man who pointed at me and asked if I was a Christian. The man then smiled and said, "I know you are. I have observed you from birth. You were raised to honor the Lord. I receive messages from the Lord and deliver them. The Lord wants you to know that he knows you seek to honor him. The Lord knows your heart. Do not give up. Continue to seek to honor him and do what is right." I was unable to move from my yes to the time he left. Note no solution was provided to me. The will to do right and serve him coming from a healthy core mattered more than good decision from malevolent desired.

[@xion0713]

Please bring back the cosmoronic podcast!

[@lime8619]

i think the WAU knew the earth is just F'ed, thats why it made simon-2 and catherine-2 for humanity's "survival" despite of its many failure creations it somehow succeeded at its prime directive

[@UnendedGalaxy]

Oh, its beautiful.

[@NoPantsBaby]

If you like Soma there's a South African studio called the Brotherhood that makes some great point and clicks dealing with similar topics and horror.

[@heretichunter5659]

Finally!

[@bidzapfc]

Searched for fluid for 16 minutes. Buckle up bois

[@TheOutlawMan]

Man, playing the flesher part last night felt ultra-oppressive, like it was right on top of me the entire time I was in the Curie. Ngl, it even felt a bit frustrating at times just as a game mechanic, not being able to look around my environment fully.

[@provisionofgrief1473]

The WAU wants to preserve life. Did the WAU bring your consciousness online to make ”human” decisions.

[@HoLeeFuk317]

I fried tf out of Carl

[@doubledawg2006]

5:42:03 JFC make a fucking choice already, this is agonizing.

[@AnalogTeek]

Ikr? How dare he engage with the moral quandary proposed by the art he's consuming?

[@doubledawg2006]

@@AnalogTeek after 10 minutes he should just make up his fucking mind.

[@sithsaiyan4529]

Why doesn’t your character freak out over the year?

[@PANCAKEMINEZZ]

Fringy, I love you, but holy crap, you missed so much environmental details and notes. It pains the heart.

[@kelp7060]

Don't give him grief. He really didn't want to record this originally. That might've effected this playthrough a lot. I notice when I record my games I start trying to play a lot faster than normal.

[@CtisGaming]

He tried, he really did. It's just hard to figure out what to do for his desired outcomes even when he took so long to deliberate and examine everything.

[@j-starchaser]

I haven't watched this yet, but I remember Fringy mentioned on some occasion that he always runs through games very quickly, without really doing sidequests/collecting items/etc. all that much. It's just his style.

[@kelp7060]

@@j-starchaser I remember that too. Good memory, that was awhile ago.

[@PANCAKEMINEZZ]

@@kelp7060 I wasn't griefing him, just a shame that he missed out on a lot of really cool environmental storytelling that he would have seen if he had just slowed down a little. But I get what you mean, it probably would have been better for him to just play it. Or alternatively, maybe just record it without an audience. I think streaming it was a mistake.

[@carmandirda]

The Robin choice pains me. Save that woman from purgatory! 🥲 Just to elaborate, my POV is that she is absolutely not chill. If you listen to her talk, she is coping with her situation like Simon was. The longer you listen, the less confident she becomes, but it's too painful to accept the truth, so she keeps trying to convince herself it's the Ark. In a few hours or days, she will realize how utterly screwed she is and she is incapable of moving. She doesn't even have arms. She's just trapped in solitary confinement at the bottom of the ocean forever.

[@mordirit8727]

But that's if, and only if, we presume the Wau is done with the ones it's preserved. It seems to be evolving and progressing throughout the entire game, what asuredness do we have that, left alone, the Wau wouldn't begin to work on fixing the people it kept alive? That's the conumdrum with ending a life, you can't ever know absolutely for sure what _would_ have happened, only what happens if you kill her: that's the end.