Superliminal - Size Matters

[@2d20kobolds3]

Jon you played like 3/4 of the whole game, you need to finish this. It's only right.

[@athath2010]

Part 2! Part 2!

[@romeoalpha1116]

Hopefully there is part 2. This really does seem to be an interesting game.

[@5Andysalive]

@@romeoalpha1116 Sadly it's quite pricey for the playtime.

[@Kjf365]

@@5Andysalive this would honestly be a nightmare to program. I am not bad at coding/game design, and I don't even know where to begin.

[@globalincident694]

You'd do a raycast to work out where the object needed to be. You could calculate size changes by measuring the distance the object has to move.

[@Ikcatcher]

What’s scarier to Jon? A horror game filled with jumpscares and monster Or PERCEPTION

[@timeforvintagepancakes9751]

Of course. He doesn't have an inherent -1 to jumpscares and monsters

[@cherryoctopie]

Jon yelling "YES! I'VE DONE IT!" with the greatest sense of triumph as he overlooks his massive and terrible kingdom of apples/cherries/tomatoes got me to cackle-laugh.

[@jacksonqiu5956]

"If I just basically blast tomatoes into my own face, eventually, one of them is gonna end up hitting the top" - Jon 2019. What this game has done.

[@Smi7h1sH3r3]

it's called anamorphic projections!! there were a few painters in history who used the technique to criticize royalty within paintings without them noticing. it's the same technique chalk artists use on sidewalks to draw those amazing perspective pieces!! damn this game is good, nice use of the technique

[@pinkandblack9429]

Where can a learn more about its usage to criticize royalty?

[@_Mutt_]

I'm with this guy^

[@Xenotric]

when jon skips a tutorial puzzle because he is scared of a box painted on the wall

[@SunroseStudios]

he accidentally made the box appear without really seeing it too, so that probably didn't help

[@Xenotric]

@@SunroseStudios yeah something tells me the dev's did not expect someone with jons... unique... perception qualities

[@g80gzt]

@@Xenotric they shouldn't cater to them. if they can't see, lock them out.

[@sirprintalot]

Which puzzle did he skip?

[@sirprintalot]

Nevermind, finally got to it. 20:00

[@Not-Great-at-Gaming]

40:17 "I'm in the murder room now." No, you're in the murder and beans room.

[@jarradscarborough7915]

it's not beans til sunday tho, so come back later...if u r not dead...

[@Kinemagichemistry]

This would be an EXCELLENT VR game.

[@ManyATrueNerd]

Nope. No. Nononononononono.

[@felixawsome]

It wouldn't work in VR since you can see depth.

[@thomasbailey7159]

that would be cruel and slightly wonderful.

[@5Andysalive]

Besides China Store doesn't have a VR mode.

[@Kiwi2703]

This is the one game that would literally not work in VR lmao

[@Jtretta]

I started yelling at my screen when he didn't get the stare at things with perspective to pop them into existence thing. Gotta love the -1 perception.

[@DarthSocks]

9:28 "What if big enough that don't need item?" Why say lot word when few word do trick?

[@jacobdial2448]

grug wonder why

[@sanctifiedmind3822]

Hey fellow Th3Jez fan

[@hugmonger]

Brevity is the soul of art

[@lovaszaron3138]

Brevity is wit.

[@oppaiomanko]

I feel like the tomato/cherry puzzle may have a slightly more elegant solution lol

[@shotgunshells2]

There is. There was a fire alarm on top of the ramp. Spawn a million fire alarm handles until you hit the button.

[@pyrenviii3053]

@@shotgunshells2 you can also spawn a copy of the fruit when you're on top of the ramp, and spawning the copy from a perspective that makes it spawn on top of the ramp

[@oppaiomanko]

@@pyrenviii3053 yeah, given it's a game about perception and perspective I think what you describe is the intended solution, I just don't think it's that obvious you can do that kind of thing to spawn far away objects on close surfaces by lining them up. At least in Jon's play through I didn't see the game signposting that when the mechanic appears (unless edited out) so I understand his difficulty.

[@pyrenviii3053]

@@oppaiomanko i get that, the playthrough i was watching had the guy do this by accident when his original plan was to brute force his way through

[@JasoTheRed48F2]

John please do a second video. The game is not much longer, and the ending is down right amazing (and quite a bit emotional).

[@vbkfivn]

Is the ending that you were in a coma? Cause that's what Dr.Glenn made ot sound like

[@5Andysalive]

I remember how genuinely confused and irritated Jon was by Antichamber.

[@TheGrinningViking]

"I've had my eye on this a long time, I think, maybe. Where am I again?" - Secret Inner Jon

[@maddoxm6807]

12:08 “musical notes rather than the alphabet” No. No Jon, music notes are ALL letters A-G. So it’s just a corridor with seven doors.

[@seanthebluesheep]

I'm sorry, I couldn't read your comment but it sounds terrible when I try to play it on my clarinet.

[@kylebroflovski6382]

This game is truly amazing and I do hope they can make a 2nd. You're also my favorite relaxing LP youtuber, thnx for this one jon! Time to get cozy

[@_general_error]

It's not a tomato! Tomatoes have a green stem joint with the fruit by a star-shaped calyx. It's an apple, Jon!

[@timeforvintagepancakes9751]

Perception is reality. If he thinks it's a tomato, it's a tomato.

[@anonymousperson1726]

3:22 i like how his brain is still wired to make him feel the need to pull it through quickly before the door closes and not register that depth doesn't really work that way in this game

[@Xenotric]

never ask jon for an apple pie

[@sherman128]

Doctor Who could do a fantastic episode revolving around the Tardis and reality bending stuff like this. Could be done with camera trickery for extra points.

[@SahiPie]

Daniel Scott the writers and directors of new who can’t pull that off. No talent at all.

[@myrddinemrys1332]

They have done.

[@sherman128]

@@myrddinemrys1332 Kinda but I was thinking more of a problem with the bigger on the inside tech. There's a practical way you could do an episode like that that would get people talking.

[@RainbowGin]

I just really want to say I love your commentary. I was crying earlier and I watched you video and it's helped me a lot. Thank you. Lots of love. Never stop being you.

[@thomasesr]

"These are small, the ones outside are far away."

[@brianmcgloughlin7799]

This could be used as an amazing idea for a horror game.

[@dragmire3D]

Huh, Sunday is beans day. Good to know.

[@NoWayJose85]

"I've managed to physics it"

[@sirdeakia]

OH, FALLING WAKES YOU UP! THE ELEVATOR DOESN'T HELP YOU!!!

[@GameBang666]

Jon must be a blast at hotels, habit of pulling every fire alarm and freaking out when the soda machines don't work

[@henrychitham3172]

"except there are lights, that wouldn't make sense in a dream"... well what would John?

[@YoungTheFish]

So it went from apples to cherries to tomaatoes...?

[@trogdor8764]

"I'm taking the cheese with me, just in case."

[@polishenglish8356]

Watching Jon's videos is so intriguing and comforting

[@Vokabre]

40:18 "i am in a murder room now" one just need to visit it on Sunday and all would be fine and beans

[@TheBradleyClarke]

Saw this on Dan's channel, so glad I get even more of this amazing looking game!

[@itslydiabxtch]

CallMeKevin has two videos on this game if you want more

[@timeforvintagepancakes9751]

30:30 I'm betting you can get inside the calendar with the 3 dice somehow

[@lilbluecaboose]

This game is really cool, and conceptually, I would love to play it. However, I have never felt more motion sick while watching someone play a game. But I'm also SO INTRIGUED.

[@TinkerLynx]

Games have never made me motion sick (and really haven't bean sins I was a kid) but for some reason I had to stop watching this.

[@ayork5804]

this is really my favorite of everything ive watched on this channel this year. id love for you to do puzzlers more often!

[@tetsubo57]

Dice is plural. Die is singular. I collect them.

[@davidthompson5589]

it's so good, well worth finishing

[@base_2582]

yes

[@TheMunz]

I remember seeing a demo for this type of game from these developers years ago and thinking it was incredibly cool! I'm really excited now that they've made a full game out of it! (I'm only a minute into this video by the way, so if the game ends up being something that's *meant* to mess with the player's head my comment can be ignored)

[@alligatorboy2000]

"Perception is reality" Welp. With Jon playing I should look forward to reality disappearing

[@theodorepinnock1517]

…OK, one last time. These are small… but the ones out there are far away. Small… far away…

[@entropiCCycles]

46:46 Perhaps the blood was from more than one corpse? And, yes, I saw what happened after that. Just trying to be silly/terrifying.

[@qualisarphate681]

Finally a game that truly represents what Jon's subconscious mind actually looks like. Now I know what they based the movie Being John Malkovich on!!! :)

[@oracleofvideos5220]

Earlier in the game, there was a whiteboard you looked at that said "Need More Red Paint!" Then later on, the blood turned out to just be one long trail of paint. Love the little details in this game.

[@CyarSkirata]

That wheely is some big cheese. *high fives any Robot Wars fans*

[@armitage1950]

Oh goodie! A puzzle-based horror game! Welcome to Resident Evil 8, Jon!

[@abagoffrozenspinach]

I LOVE this, and Jon. What a wonderful combination

[@timeforvintagepancakes9751]

4:35 The people of The Outer Worlds need this cheese-resizing technology so they can break their dependency on saltuna

[@Splox5]

30:54 Argh! That vent was open! There could have been something cool in there!

[@sweepingtime]

So this is a game inspired by that movie where there is a telephone that looks close to the camera but is in fact a huge telephone and someone picks it up to make a call.

[@zuella4682]

"Dude afternoon least German on jone's but you're truly welcome"

[@saugesmith2760]

I was born (and still am) legally blind in my left eye, I can't really see anything except if I cover my right eye and focus. My brain pretty much ignores my left eye and what it sees. So I have always had problems with depth perception, but I still have monocular depth perception. Saying all this, this game really messes with me and hurts my brain, but I'm used to having a hard time telling depth.

[@saugesmith2760]

I also had two thoughts, making this game must have been hard and weird as heck, like the coding and art and design, the other thought was this would be a really cool super power, messing with reality based on your perception and other peoples as well.

[@rodolphov.santoro8829]

@@saugesmith2760 It's not that hard to make games that mess with perception actually. Since with 3d Graphics you always have an algorithm that deals with perception, thanks to our 2d screens. Also it feels really weird watching people play this game, because even without a health issue, people usually freak out with optical ilusions. But working with Computer Graphics in general(although i don't work with it currently) is really fun to me. So i'm just nerding out whenever some clever perspective trick is done(like when i went to an escher exibition, or created a non-euclidian 3d renderer and gave it to a friend who's an artist). It feels like i'm being judged for enjoying it. Although in your case i can understand it must be physically painfull(sorry for your condition).

[@Crazimo]

Rodolpho V.Santoro I don’t know much about computer programming, but even I think it’s cool whenever the game does neat tricks like you said. I have always thought optical tricks and illusions were neat, the idea that your brain can be fooled so easily is very interesting. In your case you should be proud to be able to enjoy something further due to prior knowledge of the subject :)

[@rodolphov.santoro8829]

@@Crazimo Thanks. It's nice to find more people interested.

[@corican]

Please finish the game. It goes places! Also: the tomato/cherry/apple section was painful! haha! You just had to stand at the button and make a copy that spawns on the button. The copies spawn under your cursor.

[@sirprintalot]

It was the only puzzle I got stuck on, admittedly. For about 5 minutes.

[@almatsailaukhan9181]

omg jon, no. you were supposed to stand in a way you could see the tomato and the lip of the hill. as you multiply the tomatoes, the will start appearing over the lip, due to PERSPECTIVE. you brute

[@dashiellgillingham4579]

As a person who frequently had memorable lucid dreams as a kid, this game makes perfect sense to me. You really do perceive your environment as a construct that gets built and moves around, showing that understanding by making the dreamscape a set with wheels under the walls really does make sense. You kinda... swim through what you’re choosing to have in front of you, rather than strictly ‘walk’ or anything; that’s how the flexibility of the environment works inside my head at least.

[@dashiellgillingham4579]

Also; something else that made perfect sense to me; you can in fact meaningfully communicate with yourself in dreams through dream logic. That doesn’t means words but that does mean ‘I am in a calm environment but I need to move urgently,’ which is what the doctor and simulated voice were trying to get across. Considering the way the voice of harsh reality informed this person of something that sounded extremely bad as the best possible option, I think this is the mind of someone who procrastinated on something and feels stressed about it even when there is no danger associated with it, which (I believe) is a common enough experience for anyone to sympathize with.

[@dashiellgillingham4579]

I guess while I’m writing this for anyone who happens to see it, I should ask how other people’s memories of their dreams decay. The older the memories of my dreams get the more they blank out in black and purple, with really ancient ones (15+ years) degrading until they look like they’re made of thin layers of white and blue lace.

[@dashiellgillingham4579]

Maybe it’s age... that could make sense. Although that implies my brain had distinct stages of development from roughly birth to age four or five, age five or six to age fourteen to fifteen, and the stage I’m in right now, each saving it’s dream memories in different and only barely compatible formats.

[@wsconsn]

Jon playing a paranoia simulator!! On a good day boy is one rant away from a tinfoil hat.

[@MegaSkrow]

mini series? yeah mini series please!

[@dragmire3D]

The last few months have seen Jon play quite a few games that have unnerved him. Swimming inside jellyfish, RE7, Alien Isolation and this games spooky level. I wonder if he's starting to chase the fear thrill now...

[@theodorepinnock1517]

17:45 You make me Feel Specialllll!!!!

[@renammartinez]

"A game about perspective and perception" = "you'll be so frustrated with me not seeing obvious things"

[@timeforvintagepancakes9751]

I think you'll find your level of frustration to be proportional to how much importance you choose to place on the trivial matter of a practical stranger playing a video game on the internet.

[@sagyus]

So glad you finally got to this.

[@timeforvintagepancakes9751]

32:21 "Your mind will suffer an EMO, reorienting you for the EEP" Sounds like my high school girlfriend

[@PoisonInc]

Saw that Dan Nerd3 played this. It hurt him. A lot

[@timeforvintagepancakes9751]

58:49 "I got your suite D right here" -Game Dev

[@samuelturner6076]

My brain already started hurting just through walking through the doorways, idk if that’s intended or I’m doing it to myself since I know something’s gonna be up, but this never happens to me with other vidieo game doorways. This game looks brilliant, brain hurting and spoopy but brilliant.

[@dmdizzy]

Hearing Executor Ballas's voice anywhere outside of Warframe is freaking me the hell out.

[@willhart2188]

There was a really good part coming up later.

[@animatrix1490]

18:50 This is exactly how I felt when I played Myst and The Stanley Parable

[@anonymousperson1726]

it annoys me that he didn't do 18:35 - 20:20 properly

[@sirprintalot]

It's Jon. He'll spend 5 minutes looking at the room numbers JUST IN CASE, but he'll ignore a puzzle entirely and not even realise. GRRRRRR. Watching him play the Outer Wilds on stream was the only thing worse.

[@loganfisher3138]

Jon, it might not be the murder room. On Sundays it's the beans room.

[@rateeightx]

This Is Like Monument Valley And Portal, Two Fantastic Games, Mixed Together. I Want It.

[@asbestosfish_]

Lucid dreaming is either the most comforting, or the most unsettling scenario in narrative writing. We got the comforting one; _this time._

[@baerauble]

Why do I keep expecting Dr Pierce to explain orbital mechanics?

[@timeforvintagepancakes9751]

2:45 Oh geez right off the bat I get the feeling there's more to this room than meets the eye. The alpha-numeric blocks. Why have numbers on them? I'm thinking something like, spell out "CO2" with the blocks and suddenly your character starts suffocating lol

[@CrimsonFox36]

How to end world hunger: Bring the food closer to you

[@xanderellem3646]

This is such a coop concept for a game.

[@Jason-wh3mq]

More please. You're about 1/2 way through anyway. Might as well finish it up for us :) I bought and completed the game. It's excellent

[@ihatemegatron216]

1:43 headache, ACTIVATE!!!

[@Nightshade256]

I feel like if this was a vr game it would need you to sign a mental health waiver

[@AliceinEntropy]

A NIGHTMARE! Yeah that fits with the lore.

[@camarowland4]

12:30 Jon, Minnesota is way bigger than normal soda.

[@sorio99]

19 minutes in and I know he’s gonna have FUN with the kitchen.

[@laazala]

Jon with 0 perception, playing a perception game....

[@BarbarianGod]

Amazingly, Jon missed like three of the projection puzzles at the start!

[@aethonz]

I feel like I just watched Courage the Cowardly Dog trying to solve puzzles

[@Goldiloxz]

40:17 Maybe you just haven't accepted the beans

[@vicentetemes5793]

HEY JOU! JOIN THE NAVY!

[@timeforvintagepancakes9751]

Oh game, you had me at Moonlight Sonata

[@TrailRat2000]

"I'm not enjoying this anymore!" Yeah, you and me both!

[@sirprintalot]

I didn't think someone could be terrible at a game that's so linear and revolves around optical illusions, but here we are.

[@fromcaneof]

Jon, please just finish the game! The next few chapters are very good and you probably only need one more part to get through it!

[@takeawaykitty.]

@16:22 jon just got gaslighted by a game

[@Kaarl_Mills]

This game is just that one episode of Ed, Edd, n Eddy where they took a jackhammer to the 4th wall

[@disgruntledwelsh3817]

Ah. Richard jokes.

[@CosmopolitanFools]

It is a testament to human capacity to create abstract idea & manifest it into a visual format which makes take stock of potential for our species, in visual, spacial, & dimensional terms. The people who came up with this are exceptional - proof that while most people are drones, a significant number of others being near imbecile . . . there are those shining beacons of genius among us. Great playing, Jon - - - for you to keep focus, rapping your mind upon options available & coming up with workable options - WOW. Please have 10 kids so your malleable mind & creative solutions can be inherited. Depeche Mode had a song called "Get the Balance Right" - thus showing maybe you can save our species from de-evolution. And yes, I'm serious.

[@ThKillinJo]

Dammit Jon, you broke the puzzle

[@jackmaney4276]

So, Jon, what I believe you're saying is that this game should be played while under the effects of a lot of hallucinogenic drugs.

[@RiderOfKarma]

Ugh, would have given so much for that to have been a beebop cola vending machine.

[@tetsubo57]

Jon, I fully expect *your* brain to have backstage areas.

[@darrenslatta]

This game needs more Venus flytraps

[@insertgenericusernamehere2402]

Would love to see you finish this.