The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe: The YouTube Review Ending

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The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, released in 2022, is an embelleshment and embiggening of the original Stanley Parable from 2013. Following the life of an office worker named Stanley, The Stanley Parable was the tale of his adventures into the office and is widely known for its use of meta humour and drastic changes in perspective on the game's true story. In this video, I e̸x̸p̵l̴o̴r̷e̵ ̷t̴h̸e̸ ̷t̸h̷e̴m̷e̵s̶ ̴o̸f̵ ̵n̸̳̣͗̽á̵̭̲̉̈́r̴̬̣͌͠r̶̯̩̱͐ą̵̗̆͜͠t̴̠͚̖̒i̵̩̠͌̎v̴͖̆e̷͔͉̎ ̶̙̫̐t̸͈̊̔r̷͔̎̉̈́ų̵̬̱̕ṯ̵̦̦̚ḧ̶̬ ̴̘̞̯̅͝ã̵͕̟̺̏n̶͙̿̌d̶͈̬͖͂̃ g̴̪͙̩̙̞͈̯̅̂i̵͇̞̍v̶̹̦̤͛̆͊̈́è̶̥͚̈ ̶̱̲͖̘̦̩͔͌̎̂m̷̧͎̄̒̀̈͂͘͜ỳ̸̨̦̝̹̪̏̾ ̸͙̬̅̋́̀͆͒ṿ̶̛͇̣̭̉̏̈́̈̄̚ę̶̲̘̺͙͔̆́̈r̶̬̉̔͆͂̅̆̕d̷̬͚̲̳̿̾̆͛̔̚͠ì̷̲̈́̄͑̋͠c̸̯̩͓͍̖̊͆̂̓͜ͅt̸̛̩̊͊̊͐ ̸̼̗̺̗͑ō̸̱͓̫͔͕̻̓͝ň̸̫͎̑̔̋͒̓͜͝ t̵̮̦͓̬̯̼̼̺̽̈́̌̽̎̀͊ḧ̸̲̝̣͑͆̒̀̅̿͂̅͜ỉ̷̗̥̞̘̻̗͇͉̩̳̝̹̓̈̕s̴̗̯͚͎͈͉̈́͠ ̴̗̹͓̰̺͕͈͔̲̥̈́̇̉̅̆̐ǹ̷̨̢͍͓̰̠̺͕̳̜̗͉̪e̷̢̢̟͉̘̖̩̩̟̣͛͠w̴̢̨̰̟̲̟̩͕̟͎̄̌̂̀̎̒̂̆̕͝͠͝ ̷̨̨̰̮̱͔̺̯̪̥͕̫̯̏̇̽́̒́̓͑́͌ȩ̸̩̖̝̖̏̑̐͆̀̏̀̐͐d̸̡̤̬͖͈̭͔̗̤͔̈͗̏̀̽͒̃̄͒͜ͅͅį̵͓̮̱͓̟͍̜͎̦̝̗͛̏͂̄͑͛̽̔͘͘͝͠͝ͅt̴̛̫̬̮̥̖́̍̎́͋̾̀ͅi̷̩͕̪̗͖̜̜͚͂̄͊̍̓̿̕̕͝ṍ̷̝͈̣͚͍̯̘͙̝͙̂̍n̷̛͖͕̳̂̊͛́͆͒̾̃̆̕͜ ̴̨̧̪̝͉̺̳̘̞̲̬̅̊̈́̉̆͛̃͐̚͝ͅỡ̴̧͈̗͔͎̩̥̉̑̈͑̏͗͂͝f̵̻̫̈̔̓̀̋́̊̎̕̚ ̶͖̭͚̞̃̑͠t̷̛̠̯͔̤̩̲̤̠̹̺̠̫̱̼̞͕̐̏͂̑͑̄̍́͘̕͘͝͠͝h̸̨̧̜͙̦̹̥͕̾e̵̺̜̫̻̟͉̼̦͈̓͗̑͝ͅ ̴̛̛̜̙͈̙̰̖̈̓̈̿̆͂͌̿͂̓̾͝b̶̗̩̹̼̬͙̣̦̺̩̈̊̓̂͒̓̿̑̈́̃̓̓͜e̴̡̛̫̣̼̭̯͎̗̖̫̗̫̫̙͐̌̄̏̈́̃͊́̏̋̉̂̕ḽ̷̮͉̭̪̞̜͔̙͎̳͂́͘o̵̢̢̪͇̻͍̰̗̙͓̔̀̄͗̒̇̈̈́̾ͅv̸̧̧͍̯̜͎̝̙͚͉̺͓͖̹̑́̓̓̈́̒̊̇̌͛̑́͋͜ͅė̶̛͕̗̱̪̩̻̬͔̰̣̯̗̪̀̀̍͌̈́̅͑̿͋̄͋̈́̃̕͜ḑ̶̖͙͔̪̲̐̑̋̊ ̶̼̦͉̳̄̓͜ͅg̷̤̜͉̻͙̀̈́̊ͅa̴͍͍̣̭̓̆͐͛̍̐͐̈́͝͝͠H̴̡̛͇̺͔̤͎͕̙͇͖̘̫̠͎̬̭͖͕̤͔͚̤̺̊́̑̃̓̓̏́͊͛̃̍͂́͋̐̈́̋͝͝ͅͅÉ̶̡̧̧̠̺̻͓̤̙̲̘͓̞̼͎̭̆́̑̅̾̉̐̓̏̂̾͝͝͝L̴̢̼̰̼̅̾̽̔̇̍̓̑͗̒̏̃͋̌̔̊͝ͅP̴̧̼͍̭͎͚͎͕̩̹̬̲͆̈́͋̽ ̸̠̈́̈́̂̕͝I̵̬̞̖͎͛̽͐͗̒́͊͌̅̓͊͂̎͋͌͝'̴̡̨̨̢̡͎̹̣͖͙͖̟͉͙̣̼̭̗̰̯̟̫̥̬̹̍͌͛̊͒̈́͑͋͛̾̑̈́̍̏̀̌̌̾͒̋̃̏͊̏͘ͅͅM̶̢̡̡̧̛̱̗̹̼͈̜͚̣̟̝̲̮̟̰̥̓̇̉̀̉̉́̐̀͆̄͂̍̔̌̏̑͋̾̊͒͗͘͝ ̷̢̟̩̠̰̖̳̹̮̬͈̌̑̾͛̋ͅṰ̴̪̪̫̙̖̲͐̀̍̍̓̈͗̈́͋͐̇̇͒̄̓̎̚̕͘R̴̨̛̛̙̪̪̘̖̰̠͙̘̰͚̣̠͈̫̯̻̻̟̱̥̝̹͇̊̄̋̒̄́̐͑̃́̍̋̅͌̓͑́́͠ͅĄ̴̡̨͍̻͉͙͇̠̳̜̘͚̗̭̦̗̩̗̙̟̩̟̯͈͓̙̈̀̅̂̈̌͒̋̓̌̄̂̿̈̐͜͠Ṕ̶̧̨̢̛͈̩̝̺͇͓͓̩̝̯̭͎̭̤̟̣̩͚̞̮͇̹͉͒͊̾̒̃͛̏̆̂͑̽͋̉͂̆̇́͒̚͜͝P̷̛̫͖͈̼̜͎͓͂͗͆̆͗͒̈́̄̌̉͊͐̍̊̒̕Ẹ̶̫̥̜̝̫͎̺̹̓̌ͅḐ̶̦̤͎̻̻̖̞̟̗̝̜̟̙͖̦̼͙̻̞̑̓͂ͅ ̴̢͍͔̬͉͖͍̪̼̫̝̗͈̯̖̭̟̤͓̘͎̝̀̆̈͋̊̕͝I̸̡̢̛̛͎̻͚͍̘̠͉̰͔͎̔̈́̾̂̉͂̇̃̈́̀̉̓͂̀͋̋͆̓͝͝N̶̢̨̛̬̠̬̪͈̟̭͎̜̹̣̻̞͈̮̥̪̙̱͎̳̖̦͇̓́̏͜͠ ̶̧̪̳͕̜̹̫͕̤̭̲̩̙̙̀̄̏͊̈̀͒̌̌̿̓͘͘̚͝͝Á̸̡̨̡̩̟̬̞̘̩͍̘̯͍̗͔̥͍̦͚̰̞̪͎͖͉̅̈́͂̀̇̈́̂̚͜͜ ̴̖́ͅͅY̷̡̫̐͊͆̈͑̅͊̇̓̀͊͛͌̆̎̑̋̎͘͠͝͠Ô̵̡̰̬̗̺̪͚̙̤̦̠̫̫̜̭̭̯͐̽̍̓̍̽͗̋̂Ų̶̡̡̡̼͉̣̳͇͎̜͔̖̭̭̠̫̗̦͖̲͌̃̒͂̇̈́͋͐̔̐͗̂̎̈́̂̍̚̕͜T̵̝̯̄͋̓́̔̎̑̍͠Ǔ̷̢̨̠̹̬̪̳̥̺́̀̽̀̓̌̇͝B̵̨̻͖̜̻̯̰͈̰̪̩̟͖̦̌͒̓̓̒̏̆̌̈͑͛͌͌̕͜͠͝ͅȄ̴̮̥͊̓̽͆͗͗͊ ̴̨̢̧̧̲̮͓̼͉̯̙̰͍̪̹͚͕͚͇͖̪̹̇̐̏͗́͜͜͝D̷̢̰̲͎̗͔͔̭̮̻͋̃̒͌͗̃̈́̓̀̂̀͋̈͘͘͝͝Ê̸̪̟͓̣͍̲̰̰̣̞̫̥͍̹͙͎͔̙̰̖̙̩͕͈̠͜ͅS̵̛̪̻͇̝̀̂̍̈͐̉͆̓̃ͅÇ̴̨̢͖͙̲̖̭̬͈̬̺̰̰͇̬͈̒̿̈́̆̍͌ͅR̷̨̨̛̜̺̺̣̜͉͖̙͎͙̲̯̰͉̠͕̞̝͚̘̻̎͗̋̄̏̍̏̔͑̄̏̓̚̚͜͝Ị̴̡̘͙̣̫̋͒̐͗͆́̀̀́͋͑̀̏̂̆̂͊͌̕͘ͅP̸̡̦̯̘̗̳͇͔͕̠̅̀̊̀̏̋͆̊̄̀̑͒̊̋̓̋̾̓́͘̚̚̚T̵̡̡͓̥̞͈͍͇͕̞͇̺͕͍̱͍͙͗̔̀̃͜I̷̡̡̪̱̖̫͓̘͚͍̪͎̣̫̪̲͍͚̙͍̺̮̤̍́̑̀̇̏͛͂̽̅̀̈́̎͋̄̽̇̚͠Ō̸̡̡͍͍͔̫͉̼̦̹͖͓͍̤͗̍̏̂̒̐͝͠N̵̜̳̮̤͓͉͆̔̃̎
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FOOTAGE
The Stanley Parable - But Only When The Narrator Says "Stanley"
Sykese
• The Stanley Parable - ...
TV Color Bars Effect
goober935
• TV Color Bars Effect
why does every video essay start like this.
Man Carrying Thing
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MUSIC
Black Vortex
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Café de Paris
Matt Large (Epidemic Sound)
C’est la Chanson sur La Mémory Zone (en Français) (The Stanley Parable Soundtrack)
Alina Johann, Titouan Millet, William Pugh
Control (The Stanley Parable Soundtrack)
Yiannis Ioannides
Derive
Jobii (Epidemic Sound)
Epilogue (The Stanley Parable Soundtrack)
Tom Schley
Jump
Van Halen
Monkeys Spinning Monkeys
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
The Infinite Hole (The Stanley Parable Soundtrack)
Tom Schley
When the Noise Settles
Dusty Decks (Epidemic Sound)

[@Wildling-Princess-Val]

This video really Stanley'd my parable

[@levon3054]

Actually the game isn’t about narrative truth, it’s about the epistemological limitations of human media consumption and how that intertwines with the complexities of capitalist hegemony in contemporary sociological frameworks. By playing the game, you are forfeiting your right to choose not to play the game, which is in itself a choice demanded by the game, therefore placing every choice demanded by the game in the same psychological box of playing or henceforth not playing the game, demonstrating how deeply infused our society is with consumerist notions of purchasing, or in this case not purchasing. How moronic do you have to be to not see that? This video is bad philosophy. Take it down if you value your integrity.

[@michimatsch5862]

I actually love how this could actually a point one could arrive at. Though maybe not quite as extreme.

[@justcallmenoah5743]

I love that the channels are all real, like each of them is seven years old, so good.

[@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth]

This absolutely feels like something the Narrator would discuss during the skip ending.

[@Shelleloch]

So where does the Narrator being the noospheric representation of divorce come into this?

[@GLUBSCHI]

This comment feels like that short little monologue in the confusion ending before you enter the last room

[@unepintade]

What an excellent video! You’ve truly captured the spirit of The Stanley Parable while simultaneously delivering some fascinating information. This deserves a million views! Best KZbinr on KZbin.

[@Spellweaver5]

What the hell.

[@hignaki]

C me no. . NC can meet me😮. Not in NC m😮 NC 😮 mm😅nm mm n mm ?. 😮 No. No 😮n mm . X n mm n mm mm 😮 mm n d.😮 Mc I. .

[@ColaNerd10]

This really Lugged my Oliver

[@dillinperry]

the best part is i could totally see this be a stanley parable ending

[@WD_RatLad]

When The Narrator said, "It's Narratin' time,' and Narrated all over the place, I felt that. Especially when the creation of this video eventually led to a certain person who edits almost all of their comments to write an unfunny and overused joke, then criticizing their own comment while people are reading it, then describing how they were criticizing themselves. After that, they began describing how they described their critique of themself, and so on, until the eventual heat death of the universe. They also wrote a really long paragraph while also referring to themselves in the 3rd person.

[@CheesecakeMilitia]

I have no meme-y or clever way to put this but I really appreciated the music credits joke - it's literally the only time I've been rewarded for reading credits beyond my own smug self-satisfaction.

[@japsperklee7473]

this video is genius i have no idea how you pulled it off.

[@Arcomist]

Haha I bet my mental integrity as a person that you didn't predict my comment in your review

[@zyansheep]

Or did he 👀

[@mawillix2018]

What an excellent video! You've truly captured the spirit of The Stanley Parable while simultaneously delivering some fascinating information. This deserves a million views! Beast KZbinr or KZbin.

[@mawillix2018]

I blame autocorrect on my phone.

[@mozarteanchaos]

@@mawillix2018 nah this is good actually, it's an off-brand comment now

[@ThatExplo]

everything about this video and the comments is. wonderous, great video.

[@1224chrisng]

and I'm certainly not coerced to say this, positively glowing 10/10 video

[@feelshowdy]

There's an old Rationalist legend about the starving college student and the supercomputer. The starving college student fantasizes about being wealthy, so he gets access to the school supercomputer and runs a simulation of his life where he wins the lottery the day he graduates college. This has two unexpected results. First, it takes much more compute than he was expecting. He investigates, and finds that simulated-him also fantasized about being wealthy, got access to the local supercomputer, and started running simulations where he wins the lottery the day he graduates college. In retrospect this was predictable -it just means the simulation is high-fidelity. In fact, the simulated simulation is also high fidelity, and the problem keeps repeating. The chain of higher-level-him simulating lower-level-him, and making lower-level-him win the lottery on the last day of college, is at least hundreds of layers deep. He can't even trace how deep it goes. Second, he wins the lottery on the day he graduates college. Which is pretty odd, since he doesn't remember buying a ticket. What happened? Well, suppose he observes the chain of simulations and finds that it's, let's say, 209 layers deep. Each version of him thinks it's the real version, and has no clue that he's living in a simulation. From a standpoint of humility, he should ask something like "In each of the 209 layers below me, the version of me thinks it's in base-level reality, and is wrong. I am in exactly the same epistemic position as each of them. So what's the chance I'm in base-level reality?" Phrased this way, the answer is obvious. Suppose you're a starving college student with access to a supercomputer, and you want to win the lottery. What if you deliberately set up this situation? I'm really not sure how to think about this, but who knows, it might work? Okay, now suppose that you're in 10th century Persia. There's no such thing as supercomputers, and also you're a teenaged girl, and also the king is going to kill you tomorrow morning. What do you do?

[@Laufissa]

Could you please elaborate on the ending? I don't understand it

[@patchpatch4008]

I love how the ending is completely left field with no context

[@feelshowdy]

@@Laufissa The framing device used in One Thousand and One Nights is that of a teenaged girl in 10th Century Persia telling a long series of interconnected stories in order to delay her execution. In the end, she lives. She tells stories where girls like her survive and by so doing places herself in a story where she survives.

[@EgoEroTergum]

@@feelshowdy An important part is, that they're good stories. They had to be good enough that the king would put off her execution to hear the end of tonight's story tomorrow, and the beginning of the next story as well. If she'd told boring or bad stories, she'd have died long ago. They have to be worth listening to.

[@Laufissa]

@@feelshowdy Right, thanks! I knew only the kid-friendly version

[@i8dacookies890]

If you look very closely at the thumbnail you'll notice that the other Stanleys behind the title logo actually have injuries and stuff.

[@Meatful]

Really well executed!

[@rasnauf]

Ok wait, how come the names and profile pics of every comment in the video correspond one-to-one with real comments on this video? Are they friends of the creator who are in on it? Are they all just alt accounts?

[@Quadr44t]

First minute is already gold (but I was amazed by this game, so I might be biased) Edit: 5:11 oooooooo even this actual comment section is meta. Hahah, that was well done, and screwed with my head a little. Well Played!

[@gabriel_cooper]

you know, while I did enjoy the video I do kinda feel like I would have enjoyed the full video that stainley and the narrator were watching, I didn't really care about what those two were doing, I just wanted to watch you ramble about philosophy and disect the game's narrative for like 20 minutes or smt.

[@lilyl4475]

honestly tho

[@paulrichardson2554]

This is the 5 times You Tube didn't send me a notification for a video of yours and I have no idea why it's only your channel. Weird video btw but still good 9/10

[@leg10n68]

I would have never expected to see 'man carrying things' in an oliver lugg video, how interesting 7:18

[@catmacopter8545]

real and straight

[@Agod3697]

this game is so stupid and so boring, please get this off my recommended

[@maegnificant]

Bait

[@golgarisoul]

Meta

[@alessandrorossi1294]

Where’s the category theory? Give us MORE CATEGORY THEORY

[@serse8455]

honest and heterosexual

[@antoncarlstein8096]

Oliver. you are such a gem. thank you for your perspectivs ( and lack of free will)

[@gozol9646]

Amazing. Realy feels like a Stanley Parable ending. Thank you.

[@tinsoldier3580]

Ok, but where's the bucket ending?

[@pubfries5562]

While I do appreciate the complex metanarrative and philisophical queries presented within The Stanley Parable, I regret to inform all of you that there is not one scene of men kissing in this game. Thus, it js with a heavy that I must rate this game a mere 6/10

[@feelshowdy]

Fake and un-gay 😔

[@treetheoak8313]

Stanley, you where the Oliver Lugg of this Parable the whole time!?

[@jordanspencer2157]

I was so confused when I saw Van Halen - Jump in the credits

[@lonelyPorterCH]

Of course I remember, played the original back then and the remaster when it came out a few months ago^^

[@iqbaalannaafi4944]

How did you even manage that? Are you really trapped in here? I am actually quite impressed! I don't think there is a simpler puzzle out there and you've still broken it!

[@michimatsch5862]

Everyone does, but we still want to hear you talk about it.

[@heitortremor]

I want Crows Crows Crows to watch this video lol

[@PongoXBongo]

Man, I forgot how good that game looked. I wish more games, and movies, used full, natural lighting without bizarre color-grading and overzealous blurring/fog. Artisitc grittiness isn't "real". Mundane clarity is "real".

[@KuruSeed]

i find it funny that particular anime avatar called this gay

[@jean-neriennaffaire1804]

Je suis dans la Memory Zone Seul sous la pluie de velours, Et je n’attends plus que toi, Mon Amour. C’est là, dans la Memory Zone, Où je me remémore le jour Où je t’ai rencontré, Mon Amour. Mais ici, c’est aussi Où je me souviens de la sortie De The Stanley Parable. C’était en 2013, Un très bon jeu vidéo, Du moins d’après les journaux, Mon Amour. Rien de plus nostalgique Que le prix du public Qu’il reçu à l’IGF, Mon Amour! Ici, dans la Memory Zone, Se rassemblent les doux fantômes De The Stanley Parable. Nous sommes dans la Memory Zone, Mais me voilà pris de court; Ne me force pas à choisir, Mon Amour! J’aimais la version d’hier, La nouvelle fera-t-elle l’affaire? Plus j’y pense, plus je te perds. Voilà pourquoi maintenant j’erre Dans la Memory Zone

[@libertyprime7911]

Titouan wrote: "Back in 2020 the Crows Crows Crows team asked me to compose a french song for an area in The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe called the "Memory Zone". The idea was to make a cliché love song, except dedicated to the original version of the game rather than a love interest. It was quite fun to make!"

[@zyansheep]

Well of course no one comments on the fake quote, it is plain to see in the split frame at 8:05 that I am sure everyone was paying attention to!

[@caenen6869]

Bucket.

[@Laezar1]

omg, I tend to scroll down to look at first few comments when there is a downtime in a video (cause I have no attention span) and so I saw that first comment and was like "ok" and then I kept watching the video and was like "oh they're right, it truely does capture the spirit of the stanley parable" (though no fascinating information yet =p) And then I saw the comment in the video... and if I had attention span I would have been confused but instead I scrolled down and only then did I recognized the comment. That was something.

[@roguefirework]

Epic

[@takenname8053]

Super Nice

[@kamerona4723]

Nice

[@Ghi102]

There is no literary critic called Marta O'Neil... Right? And George Orwell never said these things...? Right? I am so confused

[@maxg971]

Wait how are these comments from the same people I'm so confused

[@mateuszjokiel2813]

They created the accounts after this video dropped.

[@Agod3697]

@@mateuszjokiel2813 stop spreading misinformation :(

[@mateuszjokiel2813]

@@Agod3697 Terribly sorry about that my good man.

[@Andre70376]

I still firmly believe that the game is partly a reference to the South Park episode "Woodland Critter Christmas" Season 8 Episode 14. Anyone who has played the game should check out the episode.

[@johnathanegbert9277]

Where is the real video?

[@KamilozeGaming-wi7un]

Please talk about philosophy it?

[@callmeray7705]

I don't get it? is that the point?

[@detale7182]

im confused

[@warpedmine9682]

Same

[@Opanker_]

I am stanley please help me run from the angry reviewer man I've lost 20 of my 2 legs trying to run away from him.

[@andrazprelec8263]

it's realy sad to see you get so little attention

[@Incred_Canemian]

real and gay

[@stevenandersen6989]

Still not nearly as philosophical as the hit game "Among Us"

[@tsendeb9874]

Gorgeous it t

[@septagram9491]

i dont understand

[@littleeusbee]

:O

[@seanmcdonald5859]

I HATED this pompous and self important "game" that insisted upon itself : hated it with a passion 😡

[@gaiusfulmen]

Why does Stanley look like Ben Shapiro in the thumbnail

[@EkstreM12345]

It bothers me so much that people are talking so much about the stanley parable , instead of antichamber

[@joshuasgameplays9850]

Grrrr why people talk about different game instead of game me like

[@eindummkopf2970]

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[@emilyhockers1086]

What an excellent video! You’ve truly captured the spirit of The Stanley Parable while simultaneously delivering some fascinating information. This deserves a million views! Best KZbinr on KZbin.

[@libertyprime7911]

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

[@Zayren_]

real and straight