Reacting to Stupendium | OPEN THE SKY | Stray Song!

Original Video: • OPEN THE SKY | Stray S...
Thanks for checking out my reaction to STUPES EXISTENTIAL CRISIS STRAY TRACK
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In a future too distant to measure, in a city lost to time, a lone stray cat finds themselves trapped in the mysterious ‘Walled City 99’ after a fall. In BlueTwelve Studio’s ‘Stray’ and with the help of your new drone guide B12, you must guide this cat home and along the way discover the secrets of this ancient city and its society of automaton ‘Companions’ left behind for millennia since humanity long since ceased to be…
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I’m back! That ‘scheduled vacation’ I mentioned in my previous video was much needed and much enjoyed but I’m excited to be back and working on a heap of new and upcoming projects! This being the first! For certain a smaller project to facilitate that time away, this song was written and recorded, with the video mostly completed before I left and now I’m back just took a little more work to have ready for you.
It's certainly the saddest/most emotionally intense song I’ve uploaded to the channel in a long, long time. In truth this song was written on August 5th, which not only was my birthday but also the day of Nerdcore Party Con, an event I had been looking forward to performing at for years after it had been delayed several times due to the Pandemic. And an event I would have been attending had it not been for the Covid I had contracted the day before my flight on the 3rd.
Alone and isolating as the friends I had been desperate to see were partying on the other side of the world and with my US vacation cancelled (though thankfully later rescheduled the following month, sans the convention) I tried to write a song to distract myself. But I guess I needed an emotional outlet and it turned out to be this song.
I sat down with the intent of writing first and foremost about the cat. But ultimately, I didn’t have much interesting to say about the cat. The cat is adorable but really serves as a vehicle to learn about the world, lore and characters of the forgotten city.
The idea of a city filled with abandoned sentient robots so ancient that they don’t even remember how they gained that sentience was fascinating to me. There are various theories about the Companions and how they came to be, but I found the idea that they simply don’t know and that uncertainty to be what was really interesting. So I chose to write from their perspective, unsure and theorising, based on some of the ideas the Companions put forward in game.
I hope you all enjoyed this slightly heavier and less cat-centric take on the game. It’s not often I flex those more serious writing muscles but I’m very proud of the result. Rest assured, there is some trademark Stupendium brand silliness, bureaucracy and sinister authority figure-ness on the horizon. Stay tuned!
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#Stray #straygame
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Lyrics and Vocals by The Stupendium
Video by The Stupendium & Lizzy CJ
Beat produced by @Dansonn Beats
Mixing and mastering by @oo oxygen
B12 3D Model by Rogerio.F..Alves
"Stray B12" (skfb.ly/owBUs) by Rogerio.F..Alves is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (creativecommons....
Stray, its world and characters are the property of BlueTwelve Studio and Annapurna Interactive.
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The Stupendium is a musician, animator and content creator, creating weird, wonderful and usually incredibly nerdy songs and animations. Join them on their journey to obscure, niche internet stardom! They have some pretty decent videos, wonderful facial hair and a great sense of discomfort describing themselves in the third person.

[@TheStupendium]

I genuinely had a moment of panic when I thought my merch was being printed wrong before I realised your cam was mirrored. xD Glad you enjoyed the song!

[@KingPhaedra]

It was an awesome song! Sorry for the heart attack my friend, BUT ITS A HUGE AND AWESOME MUG. Featuring- You sly dog, YOU GOT ME MONOLOGUING

[@apossiblyhereticalalphaleg3595]

"I don't understand why that is the criteria for being my friend, is beating my ass I don't know how I feel about it" Without any context about this line, it is certainly a very powerful way to start a video

[@KingPhaedra]

Gotta hook them in somehow 😂

[@sarahbuck2506]

Stupes gets you right in the feels with that soulful chorus, unggh. A universal thing I've noticed with this one is that every reactor has to sing along at some point. It's utterly infectious even as it's putting your whole worldview into question.

[@KingPhaedra]

ITS SO CATCHY and infectious but yeah, existential crisis for sure 😂

[@theotherbird8381]

Have you seen "shelter from the storm" already? My fav stupendium song

[@Mark73]

"The Grand Master Turing once dreamed that he was a machine. When he awoke, he exclaimed: 'I don't know whether I am Turing dreaming that I am a machine, or a machine dreaming that I am Turing!'" -- The Tao of Programming

[@mageenderman]

I absolutely adore it when I see reactions from people when they go off about the merch! Makes me smile

[@KingPhaedra]

THE MERCH IS GOOD AND WE MUST SUPPORT

[@mageenderman]

@@KingPhaedra I agree though I currently don't have any I think I'll try to get a shirt or 2 sometime 👍 I love Stupendium

[@Mark73]

I know how you feel about not being able to be a bad guy. In any game with an ethical system like KOTOR, I fall straight to the top of the light side without even trying.

[@KingPhaedra]

It happens all the time for me, very rarely will I do a nuclear revenge type response in any game. Gotta be the good guy

[@SleepyHollowKnight]

You can be the bad guy in botw/TOTK by torturing koroks! :)

[@charliepotter401]

The whole being kind no matter if they wont feel it ramble, is exactly how i feel, and is why i always got the good endings in my favorite choice based games 😅

[@kizukun001]

The middle segment reminded me a lot of four a goodbye. Also even if the response is programmed it was a human response to the story / interaction because it was coded by a human. At least that's how I see it.

[@Rhemora]

I think Caroline Flack said it best: In a world where you can be anything, be kind.

[@louiserickson8109]

re: Kindness all the time: Good for you. Why be kind only when you're forced to? If you're a truly kind person, you're kind even when no one is making you.

[@jubileechambers2604]

I have a bit of the tism and that tends to come with a very strong sense of justice so even in video games I have a really hard time even just being a dick unless it's really justified. 😂😂😂 But I love this reaction because this is one of my favorite Stupes songs

[@Iionios]

It's funny, this is a year or so later, but I have an extra level of thought to add to the existential rant for you. You mentioned not taking the more malicious choices in video games (which I applaud), but on a further level, you are a being that lives life through experiences. Between choosing to make an evil choice in a game and making that choice in real life... What's the difference? Just degrees of senses, really. Clinically, every gamer playing through a game is a psychopath because they are unable to directly feel the emotions and sensory experiences of the character they play. So what happens when the game you play is done in VR? What happens when the senses the simulation gives you are expanded? Instead of just sight and sound, you get touch, taste, smell, and proprioception. What happens when the simulation and reality can't be differentiated? Are the experiences you have there any less real? Kill someone in a game like that and whether the simulation is complex enough to be sapient and sentient or not, have you not killed a person? Does it not still stain your soul? With that in mind, what's the difference between the VR game and a normal one on your PC? Murderous psychopaths are still imprisoned and medicated for those deeds in our society. You are not the body you wear. Nor are you the meat computer in your skull. Your mind is the program that runs on that computer. And your soul is the collective result of all the experiences you've had up until this point. If you do something evil, that experience is part of your soul, "reality" or not. Thanks for the reaction and have a pleasant day.

[@zaiksarathkumara7619]

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[@notautismbrackley926]

hoc est frigus (copy to Latin)😊😂❤

[@andreyrumming6842]

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