Stories That Use Time To Hurt You

[@DarylTalksGames]

Thanks again to Displate for the sponsor, grab up to 35% off your order today! ▶displate.com/promo/daryltalksgames/?art=63fd10dfa0027 Oh and if you enjoyed this, remember I used anime to explain why an Adam Sandler movie is deep. So enjoy living with that fact.

[@Lugmillord]

The way you portraited it, Click sounded actually depressing and I would have never known! Thanks, I appreciate the attacks on my tear canals.

[@mebisanimationsandotherstu8977]

From what I have seen displate is full of stolen artwork

[@Maldito_Murilito]

interesting to think this is the first English speaking video that i've seen about click while there are many Portuguese videos about it as the movie is quite popular in Brazil

[@mebisanimationsandotherstu8977]

Great video btw love your stuff

[@exkneehilo6028]

There`s a Queen Song That`s basically Interstellar(ripped off) "39"it`s gud.

[@ExeloMinish]

One of the things that's often missed about the last scene from Gunbuster is that the WELCOME HOME is in katakana (the most basic character system, mostly used to convert foreign words into japanese) and poorly written (one character is backwards). There's an implication that japanese isn't even in use anymore, but they still kept the word in mind just to welcome these two back. It's pretty sweet. Also that ending is so nice they made a second show that ends on the _exact_ same scene and it still freaking works.

[@sakarain]

I was already planning on watching both gunbusters already, but after seeing even more examples of how good the art is and the オカエリナサイ scene, it has shot up my list

[@xAthena21]

I managed not to cry until I saw that, and then I fell apart

[@DarylTalksGames]

That adds a whole new layer to how incredibly sweet that ending is, wow.

[@thelordz33]

It's the equivalent of us trying to write "welcome home" in hyroglyphics, considering how much time passed

[@ErinSmith-jo8td]

What a great detail!

[@d_mon9631]

how does daryl consistently make me feel like ive watched an entire feature-length documentary after every video

[@sundalosketch4769]

Honestly this felt like a 5hr long documentary condensed into 30mins from how much the content was ripping my soul out.

[@thenegativoneify]

Smooth brain i guess

[@criptych]

Feature length? You must have skipped parts, it's a whole miniseries.

[@theanimefan00]

For a video essay about time dialation it is quite fitting, I guess.

[@rayvr1904]

I think it's no accident that so many examples you've used come from Japan. The idea of beauty in transience, or "mono no aware", is deeply imbedded in the culture. In a sense, an experience that doesn't end is considered to have little value; we cherish the moment precisely because it's fleeting. Hell, there's a whole genre of poetry specifically for that, mujō.

[@balsamon69]

Something DBZ took to heart😉

[@5thBabbitt]

Not to mention they have a very old story that exemplifies the subject of this video in Urashima Taro where a couple days for him turns into 100 years on his return

[@KeganKirby]

Or daryl's just a weeb like the rest of us (That's actually a very good observation, im just screwing with you)

[@nyperold7530]

There's also a custom called hanami that's all about watching sakura (or, less commonly, ume) flowers as the petals are about to scatter.

[@KittSpiken]

Ah yes, the classic piece of Japanese cinema, *Click.*

[@gameboyn64]

Click was one of the weirdest experiences I've ever had from a movie I watched on a whim. I remembered the trailer from many, many years before and thought it would a simple Sandler comedy. Then about a third of the way through the movie, it got super dark and seriously unnerving. Was honestly surprised to see such a serious project made by Sandler.

[@il-ma.le.]

By any chance, was Click the name?

[@keagan_ann]

@@il-ma.le.they say it is at the beginning of the comment haha

[@brandonbackup873]

Reminder, Adam Sandler is actually a great actor and only does dumb comedies for shits and giggles

[@kricku]

@@brandonbackup873 Medium pace

[@Underqualified_Gunman]

he's a good actor he just seems to not have good a sense of what he should refuse vs accept.

[@VivalaG]

The part about Manifest and the 5 years timeskip hit me hard. Not exactly the same situation, but after I graduated from college, I went to Japan and stayed there for a little bit more than 5 years. I still keep contact with my mom via phone but nothing else. When I returned home, seeing my mom and other family members having aged up, seeing all the new buildings that I don't recognize, all the shops that I used to go to now closed, something hit me like a truck and I cried myself to sleep that night.

[@tylermcginnis4930]

I was/am in a similar boat, and despite being in Japan 8 years I got to come home a few times. And while I'm sure this experience is common, this is the first time I've seen someone besides myself remark on it. It's even more unnerving when your siblings and friends don't see the change since they've been around them: "What do you mean? They look like they always have." It's so isolating and uncanny. I hope you're doing well.

[@VivalaG]

@@tylermcginnis4930 Thank you, man. My life pretty much is back to normal now so all is good. I hope everything goes well for you too.

[@sohren94]

I also had a similar experience: I was stationed in Japan/South Korea from age 20 to almost 26. I'm the oldest child and my siblings were between 6-10 years old when I left. Coming back to them being teenagers really did a number on me; kids grow so freaking fast during those years. (I visited home around once a year too but it's not the same as watching time pass alongside them)

[@lewis9s]

The fact that Tidus’s base skills revolve around time moving like “Hastega”, “Quick hit”, “Delay attack” and “Slowga”

[@SapphireDragon357]

.....I was today years old when I realized this thanks to this comment. Holy crap, dude.

[@SirCalalot]

Same!

[@TheInfectiousCadaver]

GOTTA GO FAST! everyone else: tidus why? GOTTA GO FASTER! FASTER! FASTER! FASTER! FASTER!

[@DozuDeku]

​​@@TheInfectiousCadaver Tidus X 👀

[@Paul-to1nb]

This is a great detail, but it's also a red herring. Spoilers ahead, but Tidus is not actually from the past. He's a "dream of the fayth" aka an aeon being summoned by Yu Yevon to keep the dream of Zanarkand alive. Sin is (until Jecht) the protector of this aeon version of Zanarkand that exists in the present. Sin keeps ships away and technology low so they don't discover it and mess it up again.

[@tempest_dawn]

this one hit hard . . . i haven't been in a time warp, or traveled close to the speed of light, but because of depression, repression, and trauma i've found myself dissociating for large parts of my life. and the experience of looking back at memories that no longer feel like they were made by me . . . it brings up a lot of the same existential grief that kind of thing really sucks. if you aren't careful then relationships fly by, wilting on the vine because while you're physically there you're not emotionally present enough to tend to them. important life decisions made out of impassivity, rather than true intent. family members passing away, without you ever feeling like you got the chance to connect with them cherish life, my friends. it is far too valuable to do anything else with

[@ErinSmith-jo8td]

This hit me. My ex and I struggled with this disassociation due to depression, and I loved him very deeply until recently when I accepted it was over. I stayed with him during his hard times, but he didn’t with me. This sort of grief is hard to work through, but you have to, otherwise I can’t be present for my kids. That has improved, but I still have my days.

[@PedricCuf]

@@ErinSmith-jo8td I'm very sorry for the both of you. It's another kind of separation. One borne out of trauma, pain, and withdrawal. I'm dealing with that myself, and the worst part is the dangling uncertainty of what could be, and the abuse that you suffer, but with no source worth blaming. My girlfriend, who was once my fiancee, has completely pulled away due to medical trauma, and every path that I have tried to make possible for her has been abandoned. I'm left with nothing to do, and nothing to say, other than to live my own life, try to continue to be supportive and present, but to also find a new ordinary world. I'm hoping that it will still have her in it someday, but the heart grows weary and tired, while time moves inexorably on.

[@duetopersonalreasonsaaaaaa]

Ah fuck this hits hard. I also struggle with chronic dissociation. But moving out this summer... here's to a better life for both of us.

[@tempest_dawn]

@@duetopersonalreasonsaaaaaa best of luck - i hope your move goes well

[@CapitalMort]

I was on a medication for bipolar that messed me up. I basically lost several years of my life in a foggy haze. It took a few years to get over.

[@Moltax]

One of the most horrifying stories of time in media is from the game Library of Ruina, there is a fairly short part of the game were you see people board a train that is supposed to take them to their destination in 10 seconds, however the train is delayed and the people are stuck in it for thousands of years. While in the train, no one gets hungry or thirsty, no one ages, no one can die, and any injury they get is permanent and will never heal so they are forced to feel the pain the entire time. It's not a very long part of the game but I think it scared me more than anything else in the entire game.

[@a-move9335]

We don't talk about love town

[@ghotty5370]

Yes I've just been so afraid

[@luckysuperslash2313]

The worst part is that this happens EVERY TIME the train takes off.

[@kiyakimurasaki7515]

Oh boy! Lovetown!!

[@enrymion9681]

That reminds me of Chrono Ark(partly just because they seem like similar games, haven't played Ruina but been meaning to) where the premise is that humanity escaped some catastrophe into a sort of virtual world where they'd have to live for however many years it takes for earth to become habitable again but something happens and the world starts looping.

[@TommasoFirmini]

This video hits especially hard for me. I was in a series of bad car accidents in 2016 just as I turned 20. It was the point in my life when I should've been starting it, working and going to school, getting a car and house. But my life was put on hold for years. I physically couldn't work, couldn't do much of anything for a long time. And now I have been better and trying to start again now at 27 and I just feel lost. While I was stuck, everyone around me got degrees and lifelong jobs and homes and I'm still trying to get over that first step that I should've hit years ago. Even though it was 6 years, it still feels like I blinked and lost my 20s

[@DandDgamer]

I hope you can find that momentum to get back on track. While I haven't been nearly so unlucky, I can relate to the feeling of so much time being lost, even somewhat on medical grounds.

[@TheAdvertisement]

I'm so sorry that happened to you. I still struggle with this, but remember that it's never too late. You may have lost those 7 years but you're not behind, just a little delayed, and you still have the time to do what you've always wanted to. Don't give up man.

[@abirdnamedwill]

I couldn't feel you more my friend... In 2020 just after my 19th birthday I broke my lower spine and only 2 months later COVID started. It feels like my progress in life came to a sudden and screeching halt, constant medical issues, the dread of my weakened body, the shame of needing help so often and much more have left me in what I can only describe as being paused for years. Finally in the past few months I've been able to start life back up again, and I feel so far behind. While my friends and wife finish their degrees I'm going back to finish the associates that I never completed, I am learning how to be an adult 3 years behind my peers. I hope things get better for us, and I'm sorry you had to go through that. ❤ I think the worst thing is just the knowledge that no matter how much progress I make, I have forever lost aspects of myself that would have lead me down a completely different life path. It's hard not to live with the weight of envy towards some other version of me who turned out "right"

[@BostonTerrierLOVE]

I didn't go through the same thing, but have felt like my life was on hold, like I wasn't doing the checklist of things that mean "I'm living life". I hope it helps to know that you're not alone in feeling like this, and that you can choose what your checklist looks like.

[@christiano5109]

To be honest, just the normies got degrees and houses. Don’t measure your worth by society standards. Your a beautiful human being and if you don’t think so because of a job or a degree, you have been steered in the wrong direction and deserve to correct those thoughts for yourself. I’m 31 and work seasonally, no house no kids no marriage, and couldn’t be happier.

[@dragonchic360]

You can't keep hurting me like this. I watched this at work and barely hid the tears 😭 This topic also makes me think of Breath of the Wild: as Link recovers more and more memories I can imagine him realizing just how much of the world was lost after the Calamity emerged. He's not at first but over the course of the story Link becomes a man out of time.

[@tsuki3752]

link in breath of the wild and link in ocarina of time/majora’s mask are like two sides of the spectrum. link has had 100 years pass by in the blink of an eye, his name is legendary to most of everyone except the zora, all of his friends are mere memories. link in ocarina of time is like that as well, but maybe i’d say he’s in the middle. he experiences that time jump where none of his childhood friends even recognize him, zelda is missing and the friends he made are also nowhere to be seen. but then, he goes back in time and all of his relationships, even with zelda, are back to 0. much like majora’s mask where link has to keep going back in time to where no one knows him and death is still looming.

[@christianboi7690]

I love Re:Zero’s take on time, at least in the second arc. It tackles the same issues of separation by time, but in reverse. He builds relationships and memories with the people in the mansion, but he’s the only one who remembers them. He keeps on losing connection with the people that he loves and he knows he can build it back up, but it gets sickening and tiring when those relationships get stolen away from him over and over again. A really good exploration of the pain of a time loop.

[@DandDgamer]

I usually love this best when there's a kernel of hope and Re:Zero has at least that. I love how though he keeps losing relationships, Otto weirdly comes in clutch in later loops because Subaru greatly underestimates the impact he has had on people and the bonds he's formed already by this save point.

[@re.liable]

You putting it that way reminds me of Ishuukan Friends

[@christianboi7690]

@@re.liable Sounds interesting. Maybe I'll check that out.

[@LeoRose-in7rt]

Regarding Click, I always get weird reactions from my friends when I told them that this movie absolutely terrifies me and that I refuse to watch it again. Only watched it once when I was 10ish, and it’s left a very lasting impression nearly a decade later. Glad I’m not alone with this feeling, thanks Daryl!

[@NrettG]

I feel the same way with Groundhog Day. Yeah it's a funny film with bill murray about being in a loop but seeing him desperately try to get out of it broke me while watching.

[@ReversedFootage]

Yeah I still remember Click to this very day. Time is such an interesting concept for stories

[@Sirine_Eques]

​@NrettG I had the same feeling of discomfort seeing him lose track of time and having no power to stop it. Had the same dread with the one Stargate sg1 episode when they repeat the same day but you slowly see how terrible it is after the comedy is over.

[@destinyDragon97]

I cried almost the whole video, I hadn't realized before how time could hurt and cause so much despair, and I loved the conclusion you made. Thanks Daryl, I hope we can have more videos from you for many many more years. PD. I NEED to watch Gunbusters

[@DarylTalksGames]

Thanks so much Juan

[@germanfireworks4649]

Time traveler

[@killerqueendopamine]

Honestly same

[@vincentalexandroswisesa4422]

@@killerqueendopamine Me too

[@vidux6289]

That Displate segment made me cry too

[@dani.5087]

It's weird how time seems to work in intervals when taking memory into account. When I was 16 I first started to get *really* bad existential anxiety, and something I would tell myself is "You're not going to blink and suddenly be 17." I think about that moment every time my birthday comes around--I'm 25 now. And when I think about that it sometimes *does* feel like I blinked and suddenly skipped way, way past 17 and am suddenly here. But that's not the case. During that interval I met some of my best friends, graduated both high school and college, moved several times, so on and so on and so on....I have a huge chunk of memories that sit neatly between myself saying "You're not going to blink and suddenly be 17" and me sitting here typing this. Time always flows at the same rate--at least where we are in the cosmos, vaguely--and it's our perception that can fuck with it. Thinking of a childhood memory brings it clearly to the forefront, makes it feel like it could have been *yesterday* (less so, I've found, with memories that are thought of more often, those tend to settle warmly in the background) and makes it feel terrifyingly like you've just....blinked past an irreplacable chunk of your life. But you haven't. Our lives don't work like Before Your Eyes, they just....are. In that regard, Before Your Eyes feels to me less like terror as it relates to time *passing* and more like terror as it relates to time *already have passed*--it feels like memories.

[@katie-mz6si]

Funny, I'm turning 17 this year and this dread has also really started setting in for me. I feel like I was just a kid yesterday but that's not true. Like you said, there's tonsss of things that have happened in the time between me being like 10 and now. But then someone says 2017 was seven years ago and it just stops making sense. It really does feel like we've blinked.

[@luciussephir7492]

This video explains something ive been trying to understand my whole life. The melancholic unnatural beauty of stories that use time to break your heart. This type of storytelling is my drug.

[@TheLyricalWrdsmth]

The the final scene in Gunbuster is one of the most euphoric payoffs I've ever experienced. As a teen I spontaneously burst into tears when WELCOME HOME appears. Realizing that humanity carried on, and remembered. Just thinking about it again, I can't dude.

[@high.level.noob.]

This is a channel that actually make my day and my life better. I have never met people that have the same interests as me but this channel is something I can always go and watch and feel as I am not alone.

[@Lugmillord]

There are more people sharing your interests than you realize.

[@high.level.noob.]

@@Lugmillord That is why I love the internet

[@Hashasino]

Hey there a cute otter... Wanna talk?

[@lualhatilualhati]

same

[@theanimefan00]

@@high.level.noob. oh hello there! Fellow seeker of mindful and perfectly constructed video essays, we are not alone.

[@ck_cal]

i think this might be the first time a youtube video genuinely made me cry, rhis is one of the _harshest_ topics ever explored in fiction and it was so incredibly cathartic to see it analyzed in this way

[@WhitneyDahlin]

Yeah I completely agree! I'm actually an in-home geriatric nurse and I do some hospice nursing as well. I always ask my patients what advice would you give to yourself when you were my age. And all of my patients pretty much say the same thing. They wish they spent less time worried about money, their career and what they looked like and wished they spend every second with the people they loved instead. The human mind does a funny thing when it knows it doesn't have long left to live. Suddenly everything you thought was so important falls away, you realize just how unimportant and meaningless it was. You realize how much of your life you wasted worrying about things that never even mattered in the first place. Those extra hours for the promotion you used to buy your kids a bigger house and more electronics mean far less to them than the time you spent. Your kids would rather have had you spend that time with them going on adventures and hanging out than have the stuff. It's hard to see that until it's too late. Working in end-of-life care has completely changed my entire perspective. I highly recommend everyone volunteer for hospice at least once. It will literally change your life. You spend most of your life ignoring your own mortality and so you live your life as if you will live forever. That is the most devastating lie we tell ourselves. It causes us to waste our life. Because we won't live forever. Someone reading this comment will be dead in the next year. How would you live if you knew you only had a year left? How would your priorities change? What would you spend your time on?

[@L7CK7]

@@WhitneyDahlinThat was very poignant and described delicately.

[@multovale]

I am crying as we speak for some reason idk why I just broke down sobbing.

[@efhi]

This comment hit the switch for me

[@Rociel]

This is my favourite video of yours. I cried so much at the end when the welcome home lit up for those 2 girls. Never thought I’d cry so much for characters I hadn’t met of an anime I hadn’t heard of. And then elvis gave me a final chuckle between weeping, my emotions were all over the place. You’re an amazing writer. I went to watch almost all your other videos after this. 🥲👏🏻

[@wy4553]

It just makes me so happy whenever I see people talk about Final Fantasy X. It's one of my favorite games and it's resonated with me ever since I played it as a kid. It was such a nuanced, mature, and bittersweet story. I remember when I finished the game, I just sat through the entire credits, the post-credit scene, and waited for more. I didn't want the story to end.

[@mutantshrimp168]

Houseki no Kuni also plays with this idea of hurting with the passage of time, but instead of skipping time for the characters is the viewer who suffer from it. Putting it simple, all the protagonist are not human, they're inmortal beings, the only consequences of time in their body is that their forget. You grow attached to the characters and witness how through millions of years the character you loved is now a completely stranger to you, it feels like you've lost something you'll never recover

[@nunothedude2]

Land of the lustrous is a masterpiece

[@RPGgrenade]

The fact that you brought up Click was such a strong memory for me. I recall bawling my eyes out watching that movie and feeling worse and worse as I saw it. The comedy quickly started melting away and I was left with very little but pain. If not for the ending of the movie I think I would've been left feeling awful.

[@egg.8320]

real

[@manuele.floresc]

Click was the very first movie to bring me to tears. Everyone I mentioned it to though I was weird for getting emotional in a 'dumb comedy.' I'm glad to find like-hearted souls

[@lu6754]

This video really hits home for me. Maybe this is because I underwent some major life changes during the pandemic (turned 18, moved away to college, all that), but it feels like the world pre-2020 is one I no longer have access to, and every passing year makes the feeling stronger. It's like I was plucked out of that life and set down in a completely different time and world. (So yeah, this video made me cry LOL)

[@hettige]

youre not alone in this feeling. after 2019 i have no idea how i got to 2023. feels like those years were robbed from me. they werent lived. they just happened, and i wasnt there for it.

[@doc6161]

That has pretty much been my experience to a tee

[@sexdefender86]

a lot of us feel that way, class of 21 especially. not quite like i was left behind, but also exactly that in the same way. i was 17 when the pandemic started, and now, even though i will soon be legally able to drink, i feel as though i'm still stuck at 17. i basically experienced none of my all important senior year, it's associated drama and excitement, and got shoved into a future that i'm not really up to dealing with.

[@stevenewsom3269]

I was 17 when 9/11 happened. That and the pandemic are the two most world changing events I've experienced.

[@EntehrterKrieger]

​@@hettige Same

[@bweeebbb]

i like watching youtube videos, it allows me to distract my mind of my day to day worries or problem, like the fact that i’m 17 and have effectively 1 year left of freedom before i have to go to the outside world to try and find what i want to do with my life, youtube helps me to relax and numb my brain in some way but i usually don’t cry with youtube videos because rarely they talk about something that makes me sad, thats most of the time but the exception is this channel, somehow with three of your videos i was left crying like a 4 year old who just lost his favorite toy… but it doesn’t feel unpleasant, it actually makes me cry of relief, especially this video and how you paint the passage of time and what we choose to do with the limited time we’re given…. idk what was the point i wanted to get across and even tho my comment may be lost between the thousands of other comments, i still wanted to say thank you….thank you for this

[@JoshuaJacobs83]

Your analysis of Click makes me want to see it again. It broke me as a teen because he reminded me of my dad and how much of life he missed because of work. It scared me but also made me a better man because I want to be there for my own daughter. Also, hi. New subscriber Edit: Yeah. You got me in tears too. Damn fine script sir.

[@ethan9340]

"Weathering with you", "garden of words", and "your name" are literally my three favorite movies of a ll time. I LOVE that you included them.

[@demdelthepoet8885]

"Your Name" is one of my favorite movies! I've never heard of "Garden of Words" 🤔

[@giuk1987]

​@@demdelthepoet8885 it's known for basically being an hour long beautiful anime wallpaper... It's a movie about a high school boy and an older woman who meets up in this beautiful garden , it's also surprisingly really wholesome. Some say the fmc even makes an appearance in 'your name' as the teacher in itomori who taught mitsuha's class about golden hour, idk if that's actually canon tho

[@wiiuandmii7619]

Jesus, I’m 3 minutes in and my chest is growing heavy over an Adam Sandler movie. This is gonna be a good one. Edit: Yup, I was right. HOW THE HELL ARE YOU SO GOOD AT THIS

[@6reen6uy]

Henry Winkler walking away crying after failing to connect with the quarter trick is a brilliant scene. As a kid I knew that this was how you do storytelling.

[@Amins88]

Seriously, people like to poop all over Sandler's movies, and in a lot of ways for good reason. But he REALLY does drama well. It's just a shame those roles are so few and far between.

[@wintkit]

I started watching this video a little while after I had gotten into my bed and prepared to sleep. About halfway through, my mom came into my room to check on me, since I was sick and visibly upset about something. She offered to stay for a while to comfort me, and I declined. "Okay," she said, and without saying another word, without turning back to look at me as she exited the room, simply left, shutting the door behind her. When I was young, I, like many others, slept with my parents by my side, usually my mom. At the moment she left my room, my brain kept replaying the sequence of her leaving as I subconsciously reach out, longing to change my mind. Wanting to feel her warmth again. Wanting to tell her to come back and comfort me. I couldn't. I didn't. Then, I just silently burst into tears. Alone in the dark, in my room. You were right, Daryl. Time is terrifying.

[@storm8663]

One of the earliest American films that used time for storytelling was “It’s a wonderful life” I’m not sure if it was mentioned but definitely worth a watch. And as for Japanese stories that have to do with time I think one of the earliest is “UraShima taro”. It’s fairly simplistic but has some of the seeds these stories could all pull from

[@Evanz111]

I was always terrified of this exact same concept, and then a couple of years ago I was diagnosed with Dissociative Amnesia Disorder. I never thought I’d actually experience what it was like to lose time, and yet the stress it causes simplify amplifies the time lost. Thankfully it’s not as drastic or dramatic as any of these stories, but I’m very grateful for these pieces of media for showing other’s what it can feel like.

[@SingingSealRiana]

Losing time can BE extreamly worrying

[@juanrodriguez9971]

I remember an anime named Onegai Teacher which I watched mainly for the fan service and left with a fear the protagonist has, fear which he gets after he learned he fell asleep for 3 years ruining a part of his life even tho he felt it like one night, and then he meets a girl who had it worse, sleeping for 6 years, and thanks to her he learns he has to enjoy every day to his fullest because none of them know if they are ever going to lose 3 or more years of their lives, with all of his friends and family members leaving them behind and alone again.

[@brainydiode]

Just a month or two ago I read a book called Children of Time that, while it's most well known for imagining a world in which spiders are the dominant species, also has a major plotline about a man repeatedly forced to cryo-sleep through the lives of everyone he cares about. I'd really recommend it to fans of this kind of story.

[@Sheamu5]

I have heard great things about that book, need to pick it up

[@wynstunliudraws]

Gosh I love that book! Spoilers for another book “Deaths end” by Cixin Liu where there are weapons that slow the speed of light to almost 0 within a certain part of space. A character returning to their friends on a planet was struck by it, causing their spacecraft to malfunction. By the time they fix it, literally millions of years have passed on the planet due to time dilation. Tragically all of their friends has lived and died and were never able to reunite.

[@michaelnewton8456]

Death’s End was the first thing I thought about during the intro!

[@lucennastryker9093]

"Despite the expanse that time stretches kindred hearts away from each other, red strings stretch further." Thanks for low-key rewiring part of my brain with that really lovely sentence. That's so hopeful.

[@lovesmangachild]

never heard of Gunbusters before today, but Jesus christ! that "Welcome back" @28:38 broke me and i'm in tears!!!

[@coolegg8489]

I hate those types of stories, I just cant handle the intensity of sorrow that follows. Kudos for making a whole video on it!

[@alamrasyidi4097]

one of the type of these stories i think Darryl missed is the timeloop. if you hate the intense sorrow that happens here, timeloop cranks up the drama even further. characters having to live through trauma, desperately trying to change the circumstances they're trapped in, failing again and again, in such an insanity inducing way. i love these types of stories.

[@radoslavstoyanov9925]

@@alamrasyidi4097 This is why Re:zero is my favourite anime of all time. It is the only non-romance drama anime (the ones where they kill the girl or smth) that has made me cry, and on multiple occasions. Subaru's loneliness and helplessness of a situation seemingly beyond him, together with his massive flaws as a person really resonated with me.

[@ceinwenchandler4716]

@@alamrasyidi4097 Oh, yes. Those stories are MISERABLE. I like them, but the way I do depends on the ending. If they get out, I just love it. It's amazing. If they DON'T get out, I'll hate it at first but then keep getting drawn back to it by morbid fascination. Eventually that leads to me spending a lot of time around the characters, getting really attached to them, and coming to love the story anyway, even though it makes me want to cry.

[@KihlNA]

@@radoslavstoyanov9925 I have to recommend Sakurada Reset and Summertime Render, I love the time loop story line and both of these do it much better with much more emotion in my opinion. Re:zero I enjoyed but Sakurada and Summertime are some of my all time favorites. Sakurada is a much slower show/primarily dialogue if that is an issue, summertime is also a mystery/drama. Both are great if you wanna give them a try :)

[@radoslavstoyanov9925]

@@KihlNA I've seen Summertime. The mystery and drama part was very enjoyable but after everyone knows he can loop, it basically becomes a battle anime (albeit a good one). I don't think the characters had quite as much depth as in Re:zero and dislike how everything came undone in the end (even his parents came back??) . What I love about Re:zero, is that you could remove all of the magic and witches and it still would be just as impactful, as it is in its heart a character study. Summertime Rendering focuses much more on the mystery aspect which for me is not as memorable. Thanks for the insight, I'll definitely check the other show you recommended. Also I'll agree that Re:zero hasn't reached its peak yet, it gets even better in the novels

[@Kisher02]

Wow I never thought I'd get so emotional over some guy talking about vidja games and anime but here we are and I'm all for it! Thanks again for giving me more reasons to watch Interstellar, I should really get to that at some point...

[@DarylTalksGames]

Oh it's an absolute roller coaster, but definitely one of the most interesting portrayals of space in film!

[@EricGranata]

When I saw Interstellar and Anne Hathaway gives a monologue not unlike the thesis of this video, I leaned over to my wife and whispered, “That’s my new religion.” It’s a good movie and worth watching.

[@seenbefore2803]

I actually had an existential crisis fairly recently, and the concept of time was pretty central to it. This video touched on a lot of my fears regarding time. In a way, though, I feel better for it. I’d rather be aware of how short and precious my life is than squander it assuming there will always be tomorrow. I’ve been trying to spend more time with family, be better to friends, work harder and change myself for the better. This is a pretty selfish spiel but I just wanted to throw this out there. If anyone else is scared of how infinitesimally small our time here is, just remember that whether it’s 70 years or 7000 years, it’s all about the meaning you can pack into it, not the time itself.

[@miadietrich7347]

It's so easy to get caught up in hard times that you wish you could just instantly be past it and disassociate. There is still beauty and love that you might be taking for granted. Kudos to you for remembering how precious it all is. I wish I had the same skill.

[@SurveyingBTS]

Dude...this one hit home. I loved your take on this, and you have only gotten better at these with time. It brings to mind the idea that depression and being used by others as a stepping stone has stolen my time away from me. My friends aren't my friends anymore; or at the very least aren't recognizable to me. It's a struggle, watching others succeed in building families or starting businesses while, for the longest time, I was stuck in Limbo. The world really does move on without you if you aren't actively participating.

[@MemoryMori]

"Your name is" is a movie I watched at least 6 times....and it hurts EVERY TIME !!! That is a mark of a masterpiece... hollywood be ashamed....

[@RubyDianArts]

This made me look up the Gunbuster ending and in 5 minutes I was crying with only the barest skeleton of context. I'm going to go back and watch the rest of it now for the first time.

[@sinom]

Warning. The independent artist stores on displate are known to have stolen art on them and displate themselves usually refuses to take them down when contacted by the original artists.

[@WhitneyDahlin]

Man why do giant companies keep doing this?!? They can just pay the artists for their work! Like why steal it at all to begin with?!

[@Chemist_Tea]

I was watching/listening to this video while doing dishes, listening, but not super focused on it. Suddenly, when I got to the bit at 28:43 showing that everyone remembered them and welcomed them home, even after 12,000 years, I just burst into uncontrollable sobs. I still don't entirely understand why it made me cry so hard, but I think I have to watch that anime now

[@brunobeeftip]

Added tear fuel: the sequel, Diebuster, which initially only appears vaguely related until it reveals that the protagonist, Nono, is mankind's living record of Noriko and Kazumi. She was created early on, and now, nearly twelve thousand years into the future, she's suffered through so much that all she knows is "Nonoriri is the greatest and she has to meet her". The heartbreaking bit, though (spoilers for Diebuster): she doesn't make it. She's ten years too early. Jung's promise is carried through, yes, but after all those years of waiting, of protecting mankind from the remaining space monsters, she never gets to fulfill her dream of meeting Noriko.

[@eraserewrite]

@@brunobeeftip Dude. Spoiler. Why would you respond to someone who said they’re going to watch it.

[@DaleMallows]

I had the same reaction to that scene. So unexpected.

[@JairusC]

Man, I think the profoundness of time as a narrative element being implemented in star-crossed situations has me tearing up. Thank you for this, it's a very wonderful piece that you've produced.

[@zurikumoacaso7543]

Literally holding my tears for the entirety of the video, Time truly is cruel to everyone. Great video Daryl, blessing upon you and more successes to come!

[@lazydroidproductions1087]

Fun fact, no color in the final episode of GunBuster was done intentionally and actually cost more than a regular episode would have. Hence the slideshow battles in it.

[@ganchroi]

The use of Via Purifico was such an on point choice... stuck in what seems to be an endless maze with no foreseeable way out, no sense of time, and a track that just goes on and on and on... The melancholy it evokes in me every time I hear it is immense and kudos for using it to make me cry into my ice cream lol

[@spartanwar1185]

That stanley parable bit reminds me alot of the jump between Portal 1 to Portal 2 You have no idea how long you've been asleep, there's plants in places you'd never have expected to find Some places you've been to before are now only barely recognizable through the rubble and foliage brought about by time and natural process

[@KazikoWhite]

There's that one meme that's the picture of the dog with the caption "He mad because day by day nothing changes but when you look back everything is different" and it's like ... Man..

[@JT-Barney]

Had this video saved for a while. Love this channel, man. Keep covering some of the best stories ever told 🙏

[@skx444]

This is why I think I had such a hard time with the movie Boyhood. Watching people literally grow up in front of you is emotionally taxing and the closest thing in real life to this phenomena you covered excellently.

[@solomonrivers5639]

Did you know it took 12 years to make?!?!

[@narrow3601]

Greatest movie I've ever had the privilege of witnessing

[@bumperjumper]

I can feel the love for final fantasy through this vid! At first I thought you would mention the phenomenon of how some works like final fantasy x are long and because of this we're almost forced to get attached to the characters through time spent together. That's what makes some tragic endings hit even harder

[@Paul-to1nb]

FFX is my favorite, and I don't doubt that Daryl loves FFX, but Spoilers ahead, but Tidus is not actually from the past. He's a "dream of the fayth" aka an aeon being summoned by Yu Yevon to keep the dream of Zanarkand alive. Sin is (until Jecht) the protector of this aeon version of Zanarkand that exists in the present. Sin keeps ships away and technology low so they don't discover it and mess it up again. In my opinion this increases the tragedy and heartbreak of the ending. Tidus knew that destroying Sin would end his life. He kept it a secret from Yuna, the way she kept her secret for half the game. The Tidus at the beginning of the game would never have sacrificed himself. She taught him that some things are worth sacrificing yourself for, and that lesson made her lose him.

[@sepiar7682]

Amazing video. That final "Welcome Back" from Gunbuster hits me in the feels so hard. Thank you for making this

[@Jessykosis]

I sobbed for the entirety of this video. I'm not familiar with any of the media discussed, but for years I've struggled with memory loss and lost time. This was a really nice exploration of that theme.

[@N8-198]

I miss being a kid. being able to stay present without fear of rent, girlfriend, your job, future, everything and everyday made sense...

[@barnertalik1806]

Glad to know I'm not the only one whose first existential crisis came from an Adam Sandler movie. This was a great video Daryl, it made me cry multiple times and I've got a few more things I need to watch now. Thank you!

[@Casual_PKBeats]

Didn't think I'd almost tear up watching this, but damn the topic of time is really heavy. You did a really good job going over it (though I did NOT expect Click to come up and actually work LOL), and I loved your conclusion a lot. Great video

[@coreyhaynes7951]

Before your eyes is an absolutely heartbreaking game and thank you so much for bringing it to more peoples attention.

[@pkmntrainerred4247]

Man, I just wanna say, thank you. Your video made me cry. I had been feeling emotionally numb lately, but the stories you talked about and the way you talked about them, it resurfaced all my feelings about the inevitability of time, its irreversible and impactful nature, and how it hurt me, all my griefs, my regrets, and despite being the type to rarely cry, this was the first time in a while I had to shed some tears... and it took quite a while for the teargates to close... and it felt great. Like I just got out of a spiral of emptiness I was stuck in. I checked out the rest of your channel, and as a fellow gamer, I honestly love whenever people talk passionately about games... I just had to sub. Just wanna say again, Thanks a lot

[@kimoota-kun]

Playing with the concept of time and a single moment in time trapped in a cycle is why Xenoblade 3 has climbed up into my top 3 games of all time

[@twilighttoast01]

One of my favorite examples of time-based elements in games is the ticking clock motif that’s present across a lot of Super Paper Mario’s ost. The way each Memory theme becomes more complex as the game progresses and you learn about Timpani and Blumiere’s backstory just hits so hard. The fact that the destruction of all realities is constantly being enforced by The Void becoming bigger and bigger is also such a cool setpiece. You know everything is about to end and you have to do everything in your power to stop it

[@wander1ngw1zard83]

Nobody is ever going to read this but hear it goes. This video almost made me cry and that’s an accomplishment cus I haven’t cried in 2 and a half years. Time is the one thing that comes for us all. I’m a freshman in college and the days until summer are getting fewer. I’m home for Easter break and everything is different but the same. It’s not everything else that’s changed but I have. I’ve grown up and left the world behind. My old friends are still acting like kids. My family is stressed and unhappy. I’m scared to lose the new friends I’ve made in college will we all change too much over summer. Fall seams like an Eternity away. I’m waiting till then to ask a girl out will we change not seeing her for 4 months seems horrible. I know I’m being dramatic but thank you Darell you’re videos are so moving. If you have made it this far you are a real one but remember to listen to your friends like this you don’t have to look on the internet for drama help out the people next to you thanks bye

[@drewtato]

you gotta ask her out before summer. summer's great for either spending virtual time with or forgetting about someone.

[@Bagels836]

I’m in highschool right now and I also have the same fears of losing touch with people I hold so close to me. But, I like to think positively that even if I’ve changed and lose friends I’ll most likely make new ones that I may have an even closer connection with. Also you’ll always have memories of old friends. Anyways, I hope you feel better!

[@Epic2kartworks]

This is a comment that rings so true in so many ways.. time starts to go by so quick, yet the future always seems so far away

[@zibbitybibbitybop]

Good news: people generally don't change that much over the course of a single summer vacation: Source: being an adult who's already gone through college. Don't worry, you'll gain a sense of perspective as you get older that'll allow you recognize what's really worth your concern and what isn't. You're young. You have all the time in the world for this. You'll be OK.

[@chupacabra8700]

Im 33, and i did lose touch with ALL my friends. It hurts alot, especially the ones you truly believe would be there or have your back orr call your family... And to make it worse, its cause me to seclude myself away and become angry and short tempered.. I miss.... Everything...

[@gradientforce761]

Click left such a deep and lasting impression on me its wild to think its an Adam Sandler movie. "Family comes first" still makes me a little teary eyed and it is ingrained heavily in my outlook towards working

[@lilimomo6847]

I just wanna commend the writing in this video, such a captivating intertwining of themes and vulnerability. This is effectively one of my favorite videos in your channel, neigh, in youtube. There is love, longing, hopelessness, and yearning in the script and it seeps through every storyonly to be let loose by the conclusion. Thank you for this video, and I hope you continue the wonderful content!

[@wearegonnadance]

The moment I saw the title, I knew I was going to cry, so I steeled myself, but lord, when you said that "Despite how many ticks are left on the clock, there is still meaning." I couldn't help but simply, sob. This was beautiful.

[@pyguy7]

I love the use of FFX and FFX-2 soundtracks. Via purification is not one you hear too often and yet it's so pretty

[@alexanderlicentia5265]

Man, sometimes I need a video essay that has me on the edge of crying the entire way through.

[@bli2z4rd]

You were right, I was not emotionally ready. I met your channel a few days ago and you're now one of my favorite content creators. I'm just sad that, as a brazilian, I can't show your content to the people I want to because most of them don't understand english that well :(

[@juampan]

Dude, same feeling here! Here from spain, not so many people can connect to this kind of videos because of english. I would love to have some of my friends see these videos and then talk about them over beers.

[@israelch100]

I’m ecuadorian and I feel the same, it’s frustrating and kinda sad that there are things that connects so deeply with me but I can’t share them with the people I care, but seeing this comment makes me realize that it is also sweet that this feelings can be shared with people all over the world.

[@RomanBellicTaxi]

Another brazilian here. At least we can tell our loved ones to translate the subs, that helps a little. And, of course, tell them we love them. That's the most important part. Tamo junto, irmão.

[@FrostKing104]

Just watching you briefly describe Your Name once again sent shivers down my body the entire time. It's truly an amazing art piece. If someone's reading this before they get to that portion of the video and hasn't seen it yet-SKIP TO THE TIMESTAMP HE PROVIDES. You are literally giving up a possibly life-changing experience by spoiling it for yourself. Just got to the end of the video where you played the music and DAMN that brought up some repressed memories or something!

[@jameswolf3302]

damn, the ending gave me chills, loved the video man

[@Loansome_]

I've been listening to Mario Galaxy's music and thinking about that era in the mid 2000's of Nintendo/media where space was calm and beautiful, and now this comes out and goes deep into those themes of time and space and living in the moment. What a fantastic video essay. Spoiled me on some media I've wanted to watch/play for a while, but man does it hit hard and feel like I've been touched. One of your best yet, thank you for making this!

[@user-fe8gx3ie5v]

SMG was late-2000s.

[@KregoryHaus]

You have me sitting here in tears man. Beautiful video. Being displaced in time is the one aspect of storytelling that never ceases to make me emotional.

[@kemsatofficial]

Click! was just a fun movie with a realistic twist at the end, when I was younger. Listening to you remind me of the movie made me cry today. Wild how what’s important changes over time. Back then, I would have readily agreed to skip 6 years, but today, now that I have a kid, it’s one of the scariest thoughts I’ve had recently.

[@Ikcatcher]

Click is that one movie that gets sadder the older you are

[@Walamonga1313]

@@Ikcatcher Exactly! So many people don't get the point of the movie. Maybe they can't relate because they've no responsibilities or loved ones, but goddamn does it get more painful as you get older. I never was very affectionate with my dad, though still a decent amount considering he is too, but after Click I try my best to make time for him and have some nice interactions. You never know when anything might happen

[@withlovemays]

I said it before and I'll say it again: whenever I watch your videos, I feel like I'm in a documentary for a while. It sounds so stupid, but at the end I was crying a bit. I was just so touched...I personally relate a lot to losing years of your life in a way so the little note at the end was very nice to hear :')

[@geofff.3343]

The sad truth is that time isn't flowing faster through anyone. It's only relative. He's still living, she's still living. I think the trauma comes from this inescapable, unconquerable gulf. There's no bridge, no road, no piece of human ingenuity that can cross it. Time is the ultimate barrier to our existence.

[@AmaiarAiramand]

Stories revolving around time (be it travel, manipulation or distortion in any way) are always so fascinating, and my favourite sub-genre. And it always reminds me just how resilient humans are, capable of mentally adapting to impossible situations, to look for the bright side even on catastrophes, to try and make things right even when all hope seems lost. One particular saga that always stuck on my memory is the "Time Master Trilogy", starting with the book "The Initiate". I won't spoil major plot points, but I want to mention the one story arc that I thought of while watching this video. At the beginning of the second book, we're seeing the world not through the eyes of the Main Character, but instead a woman traveler that due to circumstances ends up trapped inside a castle. In this castle, not a single soul seems to live, and not a single spec of dust seem to have settled either. It's an eerie, solitary place, because it's actually trapped in time. The whole area is in stasis, time does not flow inside, and as such it's mostly detached from the real world. She shouldn't by any means have been able to cross over, and yet somehow she did, now trapped in a giant cell where her jailer is nothing else than time itself, and now she's all alone... Except she isn't. Soon we learn that there's been someone before her inside that time trapped place, someone that's been searching for an exit for who knows how long, someone that had already killed his own emotions and learnt to not expect any outside help, if the outside world even remembers him by this point. But suddenly there's this woman, and there is hope, and a good chunk of the book is spent developing the relationship between these two individuals, both rejecting each other for their own reasons, but also feeling incredibly happy inside that they're not completely alone, and that an exit may really exist... but at what cost? The trilogy is an incredibly deep dive into fantasy and the pros and cons of magic, the fragile balance of divinity, and the moral ambiguity of who's right and who's wrong depending on the point of view. I can't recommend this lecture enough!

[@archymcfyre]

The animes "Steins Gate" and "Tokyo Revengers" always brought up a weird question for me. If one were to skip time, who is the person experiencing it while your consciousness is waking up in the future? You don't think about it but who is the person playing your body while you are in the future and where does that person go once you are conscious in your own present and body? Id like to see a story told about THAT person

[@diribigal]

I haven't seen it myself, but I think the Apple TV+ show "Severance" is close to what you're looking for.

[@ThatGuyNikolas]

My interpretation of it at least in regards to Steins:Gate is that it's a you that is not you. A you that is still you, despite not being the "you" that the story follows. It's the idea that what you can define as "you" isn't just limited to the present in which you experience, but always exists through past, present, and future. Just like anything else does.

[@thorgaran]

In the great SF series "Vorkosigan Saga", there is a whole industry that grows clones of wealthy people to transplant their brains from elderly bodies to young ones. However the clones have to be grown up before the transplantation, and thus each is a real person that is overwritten during the operation. I think this situation is really similar to the one you're describing.

[@noahblount3309]

You might be interested in the game SOMA, it’s a bit different from time skipping but it uses digital consciousness in the same way, specifically when copies are made, which one is the “real” you? It’s worth a playthrough or at least a watch of a playthrough

[@archymcfyre]

@Noah Blount ohhh Yes I am jamming that and streaming with my friends but had to take a break after the mental torture I had to endure from the sunk ship level. I learnt about the game from this channel aswell

[@cashwarior]

This video is my favorite one you've made. I feel like I spend most of my time disassociating and I feel distant from everyone around me. And I think it's the feeling of being in different realities that I feel a connection to. The ending made me tear up with that message that there is still meaning. It reminds me of Jacob Geller's video on zelda where despite all the darkness, there is still joy

[@howisjason]

You have just described to me by favourite type of "conflict" in fiction that I have never truly been able to describe. Thank you SO MUCH. Time separates worlds apart. It's more than just an enemy in front of us we have to defeat. It's simply how the world is, and it often feels hopeless for us to do anything about. There's something really beautiful and really tragic about that.

[@tschakatschada]

This deserves some content creator award. Fantastic video. I love it when stories use time and every two to three years I replay FFX just for the story and the world.

[@cullenlatham2366]

Its official. I think this is my favorite youtube channel on the platform. No other channel can satisfy that philosophical and theory itch, whilst also picking a topic that can actually make me cry.

[@ultimateweeabootrash]

An especially compelling subcategory of the 'time-based tragedy' genre to me is that of time travellers, and specifically time looping. The idea of being so desperate to change or fix an outcome to the point where you'll live the same moment a hundered times over to the point where you can barely even remember what life outside of the tiny fragment you've lived over and over, seeing everything and everyone you care about be destroyed each time just gets to me. It's part of why Homura Akemi is my favorite character in all of media.

[@averageman7769]

Have you seen Steins Gate? It is right up your alley.

[@ultimateweeabootrash]

​@@averageman7769 I've been meaning to get to it for a long time.

[@frazkintsukuroi5836]

Considering the theme, my mind at some point in this essay jumped to you. Because we as viewers of your content only see snapshots of who you are: both in scope (what part do we see of you) but also in time. It creates a meta-narrative that I always enjoy. It's one of the reasons why I like "smaller" content creators. It joys me that you understand the value of exploring concepts through art and I think it's beautiful to see you grow into your own art, one snapshot at a time.

[@ianbeasley2092]

this video hit extremely close to home, im a very philosophical person and the thing that i struggle with every day is time. sometimes i don't understand it, sometimes i cant come to grips with it. time is the one thing in our lives we dont have, and never will have, any control over. and thats just something that, not really saddens, but deeply disturbs me, sometimes i think about how much time i spend playing a game or working while zoning out, and ill think about how much time im wasting that i could use building my future or making memories and connections, but whats done is done and there is no back button. and i feel you when you said you never cry but this video made you cry bc me too, usually when hit with my realization that i waste a ton of time i zone out or brush it off but your video made me think and its just very somber. its just very hard to think about the fact that one thing we're told the most is to enjoy every moment when we as human beings were never designed to do that, you dont ever mean to zone out or forget things but it still happens. im 18 and my 19th is in in exactly 2 weeks. i can still remember some of my earliest memories and whatll feel like moments from now ill be thinking back on them knowing im about to make some of my last memories, and idk, i just feel a way i cant really describe. its like i dont want to live my future because the more i gain the more ill have to let go of one day. and idk if i just live in the past too much or what, but time really is just terrifying. i have a lot to think about, but i encourage everyone not to take the very fact that you're alive right at this moment for granted, and make the most of it, because what will feel like moments from now, you'll see your last memory, and after that you'll never know what happens because the world just goes on.

[@clem_clam]

So I had no idea that Your Name existed, and even after watching this video and knowing the plot, it was shared so beautifully that I really want to watch it. Maybe I'm a sucker for heartbreaker films, but the main concept is one that's fairly new for me to see in media and yet one I'm deeply familiar with personally from my own experiences. Thanks for a beautiful commentary, I can't wait to watch it :)

[@Ikcatcher]

I like how a lot of time travel stories, no matter how fantastical or depressing, give the lesson of appareicating life in the present instead of worrying about the past or future. I find that kind of simple but beautiful.

[@5001Fergies]

I just want to thank you for mentioning “voices from a distant star” i always remembered watching a movie that saw two people being separated more and more by distance, making their transmissions to each other take longer and longer, and it being a really impactful movie for me, but the name of the movie had been lost to me through the long amount of time since i watched it, and i couldnt find it anywhere no matter how hard i searched. Thank you a million for reminding me of this masterpiece in gonna go watch it again

[@labadaba1147]

I can't describe why but your videos always put me in a melancholic mood and makes me cry at the end. But not in the sad way, it makes me appreciate beuaty and complexity of the world.

[@Mr_Owl]

I don’t really know why I didn’t expect to get hurt watching a video about how stories can hurt you through the usage of time, but I was genuinely emotional because of this video. No words, just utter brilliance. The sheer fact I even saw this video was completely on a whim, because I wanted to rewatch the 4th wall break video and decided to watch more of your content. By far, this is one of the best videos I have ever seen on this website, and I thank you for creating it.

[@AlexBarrGameDev]

This was fantastic! I love these kind of stories. One example of this is in in Doctor Who, the first episode with River Song. She and the doctor keep meeting in different orders and her introduction to the show is when the doctor first meets her and she’s heartbroken that he doesn’t recognize her. What is cool is that watching it for the first time you see things from his perspective but if you continue to watch the show and go back to that first episode you see it from hers.

[@OnyxSkiesXIX]

Dude wtf? I was not ready for this video to absolutely wreck me like this. I haven’t cried like this, well, since Tim Roger’s last video that kinda hits similar vibes. Time is scary and sad.

[@LMD100797]

I loved Click because I was both terrified and awakened by it, at 13, as I first realized the merciless flow of time. I was in so much pain emotionally because I knew full well what Cooper has to go through once he got back to the ship. I was in speechless shock when I understood what happened to Mitsuha's town, and the pain when the movie revealed that Mitsuha actually tried to find Taki, just to get turned down when both of them didn't even understand what was going on was that much rougher. When I got interested in Touhou and started learning its lore and fanmade content, I came to understand how devastating unwanted immortality is, and the pain of someone who has to watch their loved ones die of old age while they hardly even age at all. I no doubt shed a few tears to this video. Value your time in this world, for it's transient, and you are only loved as much as the people close to you love you.

[@imveryangryitsnotbutter]

You remember Click fondly for the way it unexpectedly swerves into existential dread, but you've forgotten all the awful bits about Click that make it such a painful slog to sit through. The bad significantly outweighs the good.

[@VelvetAura]

@@imveryangryitsnotbutter Oh yeah Click is not a great movie but there's something to appreciate about it in the end and I think it's got to be worth something if it's able to spark feelings that led to a video like this being created

[@Walamonga1313]

@@imveryangryitsnotbutter No it doesn't

[@blindside6691]

This is beautiful. Time dilation is one of the most brutal concepts I've seen in fiction. This does it justice--its inexorability--its callousness--its painful neutrality, neither good nor evil. And so many case studies I was completely unaware of! I think that the consistent ending structure highlights a strong conviction (in all of these pieces) that a purely neutral force may unintentionally obstruct human will, but it can never truly strip that will away. Time passes and the mind reels, but once the bulk has passed, we get back up and begin to reconcile with the infinitudes.

[@Y20XTongvaLand]

What even are these words you're using

[@guygaminghq5327]

Daryl, this is the very best content on the internet. You cover these emotional topics in a way that makes me emotional all over again. We need more content like yours.

[@StarboyXL9]

This video made me feel the sense of awe and respect I felt when reading Lovecraft's "The Shadow Out of Time" for the first time. I've never been afraid of time or it's passing, instead I've always been fascinated by it. But I know I'm not normal. Thanks for the memories.

[@viridi3768]

This is also one of my fears, and it is very close to another one of my fears. Amnesia, where losing the time spent with someone with both prospectives sends a dagger of fear and sadness every time I encounter it in a story. I loved this video. Thank you

[@bane2201]

God, I definitely understand fear of amnesia - I've lived through it. My memory of my adolescence - essentially, ages 0 to 20 (I'm 25 now) - are so hazy I may as well have amnesia(*). Plus seeing my grandfather having bad dementia was scary to me. Anything relating to amnesia (which time travel-related stories often have) really hits close to home for me. That might be why I love them so much. I've had to just accept that my review of any game related to either of those will be so biased it'll be practically useless. (*) - Long story short, I had SEVERE untreated sleep apnea + was on a terrible medicine that made me feel mentally exhausted. Combined, those messed with my ability to encode memories.

[@Jade-tr4ee]

I cried, not just from the references to my favourite media, but because of the way you described the situations and the feelings that the characters went through. Phenomenal work Daryl, I think this is the best video you have made by far.

[@Wainwright95]

Yet another master class of a video! One of those channels that as soon as I get the notification, I'll put on the kettle, sit down and absorb the video. Always a pleasure watching these videos

[@Ihatsharks]

I'm watching this a year after its release, months after I turned 18, days away from graduating high school. I don't know if a video has ever instilled existential terror into me, to immediately relieve it. I have no idea what the future holds, none of us truly do, but I feel just a little less anxious knowing that time keeps marching on. So thank you, Daryl, from a year ago, and thank you to Daryl today, and Daryl a year from now, for the content you've made, so that we may experience your ideas, no matter the time.