What Does Identity Mean in Life is Strange Double Exposure?

[@gamersunbeaten]

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[@dmwfourth]

Another great video, Chris.

[@PaulVisions-e8v]

I thought this was China Uncensored still, Good job Mr. Chapel

[@SherrifOfNottingham]

There is something deeply funny about saving Chloe just to have her not be in the next game. In adventure stories, these "choices matter" games, it's called "Dead Man Walking Syndrome" and it's why the choices DON'T matter.

[@stapleman007]

Stay strong, Warren. Stay strong.

[@4362mont]

"You fool... Warren is dead." -- H. P. Lovecraft.

[@Brown95P]

"Whatever comes our way, whatever battle we have raging inside of us, we always have a choice; it's the choices that make us who we are, and we can always choose to do what's right." - Peter Parker, Spider-Man 3

[@Tuberiascaesar]

This video seems to think it's community and spider choices. Talk about split personality.

[@HontasFarmer80]

We need to get this guy to play Cyberpunk 2077. We need to see agent smith playing with Keanu Reeves in his head.

[@WglfIncorporated]

Great analysis as always! One thing I’d like to point out is that the prequel explains that Chloe is not, in fact a pointless, corporate-fed consumer as all of the clothes she wears are either old clothes from important people in her life (the leather jacket she wears was her dead father’s favorite jacket, and the she found the blue hair dye in a basket full of old childhood things) or fashioned out of trash (the truck and the beanie are both trash that she picked up and used). I always thought the main character flaw in Chloe wasn’t that she’s an annoying punk delinquent but that she is too scared to let go of the past. Chloe’s insistence on playing with Max’s powers despite the harm it causes felt more like she had an attachment issue than if felt like she was just being careless, and most of all of the times when she lashes out in anger in the first game is due to her receiving a memory of her past. I love Life is Strange, and how it teaches you to accept the consequences of your own actions by giving you a scenario where your actions have virtually zero consequences. This applies to both Max and Chloe, Max has literally zero consequences as she can just rewind time to fix any mistake, while Chloe chooses to ignore the consequences because she is too stuck in the past to care about the future. The main reason I enjoyed Life is Strange and Life is Strange: Before the Storm was watching as Chloe slowly learned to stop focusing on who she was (in terms of your adolescence argument, this is a common thing I’ve heard on the internet; many people online have talked about how they wish they could be a child again when times were easier, just like Chloe) and instead facing her future, even if her future is grim and full of tragedy. I was really happy to finally see character progression after a few chapters of tosses and turns, and I was also really sad to see that it had to end the way it did, on an unrelated note it made me think a lot about Sydney Carton from Tale of Two Cities while I was playing the game, and I like Sydney a lot so that’s likely why I liked Chloe’s story as well. Carton, through likely half of the book was insufferable due to his inability to do… anything, but there was always a part of me that wanted to see him get better, which was why it made me so melancholy to know that it would mean his death. In a similar sense, I hated (and I mean the I had to rewind the moment where she got hit by a train several times to stop being mad at her kind of hated) Chloe at the start of the game, yet with each episode I felt a more hopeful that she would somehow get better and as result started to root for her, so when she eventually does turn herself around and died as result it honestly hurt me a little bit inside, just like how Sydney Carton made me feel. I don’t know how Double Exposure will turn out in terms of how Max has developed (I only played episode one), but the acceptance Max faces at the end of the game, either by correcting her original mistake or facing her consequences head-on is also relevant to your adolescent argument since Max’s character development in game (the discovery of her identity, if you will) isn’t achieved via purchasing clothes or learning it in a classroom (in fact that’s how she tries to find herself at the start of the game) but instead through conflict. Max’s carefree slowly becomes a nightmare with herself at its center solely because she got way in over her head and thought she knew everything about the world. Max thinks that she’s a failed photographer and her teacher was only holding out sympathy, but that’s wrong, her teacher was actually obsessed with her and was going to kill her over that, see how life can be so different when you actually do things in life instead of sulking over yourself in the way Max originally did? Despite everything “good” she may have done, that all comes with strings attached (represented by the tornado), proving to Max that no, she is not a “tiny little snowflake” or anything like that, because rather than have her worth be explained to her she can now understand her own worth because of how she has handled adversity. Self-worth is also mentioned when Max has a conversation with David in episode 4. David describes how he hates photographers, recalling how in the war photographers always tried to take pictures of him to promote an anti-war campaign. What the photographers were doing to David does a good job describing how a person’s worth, especially in media, seems to be more and more determined by others rather than by oneself. I heavily gravitated towards the more self-confident characters like Max, David, even Samuel (if he applies), but I also appreciated characters like Chloe and Nathan who, while it may be hard to justify what they have done, still show signs of atonement and growth, as if they understood that what they have done was wrong and are dearly sorry for it. After all, the whole series is about lost and/or broken people finding their way, it’s about people breaking out of the adolescent cage and becoming their own people. Max breaks free by accepting her consequences, and Chloe breaks free by accepting the numerous tragedies life has dealt and will deal to her. Both of these characters are essentially “patron saints” of finding identity in the modern world, teaching the audience that real life won’t slow down or catch you, and that tripping and falling is inevitable all from the safety of your computer monitor at 12:00 AM. I love the message of the Life is Strange series, how life will never be perfect even if you make it perfect, and I’m very glad you did a video covering it, I think a lot of people can benefit from hearing it. TL;DR: I should go outside more

[@gamersunbeaten]

Excellent analysis. Makes me excited to play before the storm and double exposure!

[@melissasalsbury4705]

To friendzone Warren...... permanently LOLOLOL omg

[@melissasalsbury4705]

😂 the skeleton with the hat on

[@melissasalsbury4705]

Posing in progress. This video is so well put together. Well done everybody!!!

[@515nam]

I bet Chloe wouldn’t have got the talking heads reference

[@edudmodnar4661]

Life is Strange teached me that Video Games can be worse than doing nothing at all

[@NathanielRuzicka]

"A good soul costs $0" -some stoic guy on my consumer electronics

[@stykar13]

Chloe never dealt drugs. I've spent a while playing all these games repeatedly. That being said as much as I love Chloe she's a pretty horrible person at times because she's got the mentality that the whole world is against her. I mean looking at her life it does kinda seem that way. I mean even when her dad is saved from certain death she gets paralyzed. It's kinda hard to defend Chloe. I guess the most you can really say to explain her bullshit is that "hurt people hurt people"

[@nebula0024]

This video dodged and weaved in many, hilarious directions. Well done 😅

[@helenwhs]

The moment Chloe got mad at Max for picking up a call from Kate was when she became an unforgivable asshole in my eyes.

[@AbyssalManta]

Holy shit, Evo Search for Eden. I had no idea Chris was this cultured.

[@gamersunbeaten]

You should have just assumed I am

[@libbyrodriguez]

I just caught up, and wow. This video was super deep. What a wonderful analysis and video edit! Loved this video!! Lmao and poor Warren

[@gamersunbeaten]

Warren won’t be making an appearance in the sequel

[@filozof90]

It's true that teenagers often try to affrim themselves by consumerism and following trends, however that doesn't mean we are just a product of our social relationships. Eveyrone has an unique personality with their own likes and dislikes, dispositions and temperament. Ancient jewish philosophy isn't an objective truth.

[@matthewwoods6972]

Words to live by, "I'm not a teen girl. I just play one online." 😂

[@azardragneel]

So the sequel to LiS is that I need to make this guy pick the good ending in LiS? :D But seriously, this video is one of those gems that I watch this channel for, great job.

[@danielstrang4999]

I didn’t realize from the thumbnails that this was a direct sequel to the first game (the other sequels were spin offs which I didn’t like very much). In that case, I hope this game lives up to the first.

[@leslienordman8718]

Wow! Deep thoughts, indeed! I like this: it really makes me think--and laugh.

[@HoraceWah-pole-ry4qk]

What an fantastic video. Nuff said.

[@Fauxkerykes]

I could not have said it better myself very well said sir

[@k98killer]

Do enough real soul searching in the form of meditation, and you'll find that identity is so elastic and plastic that it can seem to not exist at all or consume the whole self. Identity as a goal is a misapplication of effort and resources.

[@Brown95P]

This is what they meant by not staring at the endless void for too long, for otherwise you'll feel like it's staring back at you.

[@k98killer]

​@@Brown95P Who is this "they" who misconstrued the words of Nietzsche and jettisoned their entire context? And why are you accepting advice from them?

[@Brown95P]

​@@k98killer Iunno, the people who warn not to meditate with an empty mind because it can drive the practitioner mad? I just thought it was a neat correlation between the two; my mistake for thinking as such. 🤷‍♂️

[@Will_Aviles]

well done video one of my favorite. so deep lol

[@hblaub]

Poor Chloe, she did not get into the recall this week! Better luck next time.

[@fanaticforager6610]

To become ~ The Butterfly 🦋 ✨

[@jerrypackard6807]

Human souls are literal entities. The issue is that we are not gods and we were never meant to completely-self-define as if we were. God created us and is the original and most important source of our identity, definition, value and rights. When He made us in His image He designed us with a physical body in mind as well as relationship with Him, other humans and the rest of His creation in various and differing ways: Our relationship with Him is meant to be ultimate-first in authority, value and in some ways closeness; Our relationship with humans, much greater than animals; Animals greater than soul-less lifeforms like plants, fungi, bacteria. ...and something like a rock or shovel-full of soil is more or less useful objects/material but still deserves some kind of respect as part of God's creation. He also made each of us with a kind of will of our own. With this will we are meant to partially-self-define in relationship with all of the above. ...Our first 2 ancestors believed a lie and partially-self-defined in a way that corrupted their relationship with God. All the other relationships relied in various ways on that first one. As a result, (partly because God withdrew some blessings, partly because He altered (cursed) creation in some ways as punishment, partly because we started screwing things up instead of helping to rule the world in a ~symbiotic~ sorta way) everything in this world has been corrupted:from human will and self-defining to our biological functions (like disease and death); From animals to bacteria (death, toxicity, parasitism, etc.); from the weather (not referring to woke-ish views on climate change) to toxic minerals in the soil. Even radioactive decay of things like uranium probably didn't happen originally: I suppose as part of the curse God made slight adjustments to the strong/weak/any other nuclear forces that govern the stability of atoms --- not enough for everything to fly apart but juuuuust enough for some harmful radiation and possibly the formation of harmful elements like lead. ...If you look up "catastrophic plate tectonics theory" I think one sub-hypothesis is that a change in atomic-stability may have caused minerals in the earth to have a sort of melt-down resulting in either a whole lot of convection in earth's mantle or a some kind of instability where large sections of earth's crust sank into the mantle resulting in a period of rapid continental drift and the global flood... ...the Gospel includes an eventual reversal of all of the corruption and other cr@p we've been doing/going through since ancient times... ...was this a tldr?

[@AmayaNakafuji]

0:00 HOW?! HOW DID YOU KNOW?! 🤯

[@Songcompiler]

Thank you Chris another good Ep

[@a0001521]

Do you think Chris would cover Frostpunk and what constitutes totalitarianism?

[@inotaishu1]

now, you were not automatically considered an adult when you reached sexual maturity in times past. To take a topic that you should be familiar with: In the Qing empire, you were not considered a man until you reached the age of 20 sui, and literati could already have sex with you (if you were from the lowest of the low of course) between the age of 12-20 sui. So yeah, they clearly did not consider those in that time period children or adults.

[@Yeoj444]

Suddenly all these teens seem shallow and pedantic

[@HotNoob]

a lot of gold here... don't play life is strange.

[@social3ngin33rin]

Chris gets to RP as a female teen, dream come true lol

[@touge242]

right, so...which shirt should I buy now?

[@AvaLoo677]

Chloe slander....I approve

[@chrisose4585]

This video got deep

[@SeanChristieMallon]

It’s a phenomenal game

[@BunkerAnon]

Apparently it pissed off the original game fans that were really on the shipping side of things. Because the character you kept saving and sacrificing for. You've broken up.

[@OneTato]

E.V.O. refrence 🤣 Love that game ❤

Why do I get the feeling that the video is Gen Z in a nutshell?

[@wesdowner5636]

I really don't get what anyone sees in this game! Probably just too old.

[@BetterDeadThanRed_Reject1984]

The rewind button , the possibility of fixing your mistakes , even when you're honestly think that you've made the best choice is something that many of us would like to get

[@swiggitymcswooty141]

​@@BetterDeadThanRed_Reject1984seems very cringe. quit regretting the decisions you've made and learn to live in the now rather than being shackled by your past.

[@dmwfourth]

No, there are young people who share your view.

[@destynova4512]

Pretty sure this game is more for the lgbt mafia Cat Lady casual Sims players.

[@robinnewhouse1563]

​@@swiggitymcswooty141it's a gameplay mechanic dawg...

[@mechaman7818]

4:53 Most Dangerous.

[@ChairmanKam]

3:45 Don't you mean you need to "break on through to the other side"?

[@AvaLoo677]

realistically tho why would they break up..was that explained if you picked that option

[@gamersunbeaten]

Not sure, I’ll stream this one probably this weekend

[@roncox5512]

Can't wait 😂

[@TheOnlyOpie]

LiS: Double Exposure Metacritic USER scores: PC 2.8/10, Xbox 4.0/10, PS5 4.0/10

[@gamersunbeaten]

Hmm, maybe I should return it...

[@jonathanw7777]

I thought this would be a cringy conservative whines about video game thing but damn just legitimately biting social commentary punching up to our corporate overlords noice

[@gamersunbeaten]

I guess in this case I’m happy to disappoint!

[@canochento]

i couldn't say it better. dependence is slavery.

[@XxCørpsegirlXx]

I made max kiss warren forget about chloe she made max take the blame

[@AnEvilSunBro]

Söphie. Big O there, bud lol

[@Havenhutbeauty]

Yep men dont mature until 40 years old..

[@eddeddesc3717]

😮

[@Havenhutbeauty]

Omg did this game have a age restriction now i know why in 2024 our 10year old girls act 40

[@timelordthemaster]

This game is cringe - in short.

[@SquitoEater]

Trust in Jesus. Honor your mother and father. Love your neighbor as yourself. Love your enemies.

[@Brown95P]

Family is not sacred, never has been, and never will be; countless parents throughout history have used their own blood children as sacrificial lambs all for their own selfish gains. The people that define you should always be the ones you choose to be with, not the ones that are chosen for you.

[@SquitoEater]

@ Luke 6:32-36 ““But if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive back, what credit is that to you? For even sinners lend to sinners to receive as much back. But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil. Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.” I would like to conform to the image of Christ. If I had left my family because we did not see eye to eye I doubt I would have learned the skills to get through the hardships and know how to handle them.

[@Brown95P]

@@SquitoEater If I didn't leave my dad back when I did, I likely would've gotten a bullet straight through my head at some point, especially since the time he pointed a gun at my six year old self was purely out of anger. Good on you if your family was relatively normal, but abusive and dangerous parental figures definitely exist and always have existed, and no singular skill would ever be worth putting yourself through such misery and danger to life.

[@Fjørd_3]

Bullshit statement. In most cases family should always be there for you. If theyre toxic and weird, distance yourself from them or try to work it out. Every situation is different and individual, but not the rule. Family and friends are important. Family is sacred. And family doesnt always have to be the stereotypical dynamic. Family can also be found in pets or places​@Brown95P

[@dannylo5875]

You are just an NPC chris.

[@Earthinoid16]

Stay away from Max, the girl is bad news. 😆

[@youareivan]

fa fa fa fa fafa fafa fa far better!

[@red-pm5qg]

Weren't you an alt right politics commentator like last year?

[@Brown95P]

Lmao, where did that even come from? 🤣

[@Got_Issues]

Oh no Better subscribe

[@Glass_Olmund]

If by "alt right" you mean anyone who was left behind by the left -- that happened years ago. Chris makes an effort to be non-partisan and he doesn't agree with Republicans on a lot of things, but he looks increasingly conservative year after year because progressives now reject their moderate former allies. He's anti-CCP.

[@ThePowerLover]

He is not alt-"right", but yes, he's closer to that than I would like him to be. But still, there's quite a difference.

[@shanerogowski]

I love how you are doing this! Awesome😂😂