Hearted Youtube comments on Jimmy McGee (@JimmyMcG33) channel.

  1. I'm a huge AI skeptic, and as a software engineer, that's not an easy line to walk. The best sell that I've seen for AI, is that it will function as a copilot for all the shitty, high time consumption, low impact tasks we need to accomplish on our day to day. It shouldn't take away anyone's job, it should give them ability to focus on more meaningful aspects of their job. When you examine that more closely, you realize that it means that AI is going to take away the jobs of low level employees, that need to start off as basic, entry level people and work their way up to challenging, advanced problems. Where will this leave the industry in 20 years, when the junior count has declined so drastically that there will be no supply of expert level people? Is the bottom line more important than helping someone grow as a professional and enriching society as a whole? Rhetorical question, obviously the answer is yes. It sucks, on a personal level, to have to walk between raindrops to avoid unethical, shitty high tech companies. Even companies that try to make the world a better place might end up doing it in the wrong way.
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  2. What really struck me when playing was how it turned me into a soulless monster in no time flat. When I started, I was scared and confused, trying my best to avoid civilian casualties as I tried to reach the target. Then, once I realized you could mulch bodies and sell their organs, I went out of my way to kill as many people as possible. When the game is trying to get the message across that the value of human life is at an all-time low, it hits different the moment I realize I'm actively selling kidneys and livers for a couple of dollars, and using the funds to invest in the stock market.
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  3. just obsessively watched every cruelty squad review i could find, and this one i resonate with the most
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  4. Wrote a grad thesis on ML in aerospace. Nothing depresses me more than seeing how corrupt, toxic, and disenfranchising the field of AI has become recently. It’s so broken the only real solution is to let it die under the weight of its own expectations, since the math doesn’t support what it’s doing now all that well.
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  5. God that whole portion on the “What if Mario was an NFT” thing had me rolling, how ridiculous.
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  6. We making it outta the president AI voice Youtube videos with this one
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  7. The game does actually have random spawns. On rare occasions, the game will take an enemy that normally only appears on higher difficulties and spawn it into the level anyway just to mess with you. If fact, if you are unlucky enough, you can encounter a Necromech (those giant enemies with the skull and dual LMGs you meet in the mall that are immune to most weapons) as early as level 2.
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  8. Been waiting for this one so I can flippantly type "D4 bad" before actually absorbing anything from the video.
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  9. Its really funny to me how in about 8 months, after the hype bubble began deflating, saying something "looks like it was made by an AI" went from a celebration for technology to a straight up insult, as it should be. Another banger video.
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  10. "Never trust a WebP user." I felt that in my soul
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  11. It's truly wonderful how pragmatically a human being can be turned to a borderline functional slug.
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  12. 1:00:00 holy shit you have literally articulated this one thought I've had stewing in my brain for the past few years, the modern internet is becoming a conveyor belt for "content" rather than a collection of things you can look for.
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  13. 19:54 I'm reminded of the observation that the problem with building a bear-proof container is that the smartest bears and the dumbest humans overlap. We're getting (or already at) a point where this is true for AI.
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  14. Incredible how much of an empathetic grasp on American culture you have being someone who I imagine isn’t from the United States. I also love how well and thoroughly you explain and break down difficult concepts like the commodification of attention into very simple to understand rhetoric. It’s a real treat to listen to.
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  15. I think Josh Strife Hayes said this, but I'll reiterate it here: Recent games aren't made with fun first. They're made fun enough to get you to engage with the in-game store.
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  16. "Allegedly really awesome" has to be the funniest way to cover your bases while endorsing something illegal. As always, fantastic work. Preach.
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  17. "this game is 80 hours of metastasis every 4 months" is the most violent commentary i've ever heard about any game lmao. Thanks for your work
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  18. “in a free market, when something bad happens to you , you must be punished” almost brought tears to my eyes man . great work as usual, you’re one of my favourite writers on this website
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  19. That thumbnail is a work of art, it literally says everything before watching the video
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  20. I got really into pinball recently and I think it's probably the "healthiest" machine zone to be in. Funnily enough, another descendant of Bagatelle. You get sucked in by the lights and sounds and physical speed, the anxiety of losing a ball, and the dopamine rush of hitting a shot perfectly. I literally enter a flow state when I'm on a roll. Getting a multiball is a real sensory overload. Virtual machines don't have the same effect - the strobing effects are literally blinding in real life, but are mild lights on computer screens. I'm actually really glad that you can't directly win money from pinball machines - this creates a healthy relationship between designers and players. Players understand that it's about the experience and bragging rights. Designers want to make it just random enough that a skilled player loses but a new player can still have fun. Also, because it is physical, the machine seems fair. Game designers cannot fake the randomness of a physical pinball like they can with virtual slots. It takes a legitimate amount of skill to be good at it, but at the end of the day your control is just influencing chaos.
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  21. This video was fantastic. Perfectly explains why gacha games feel so damn evil. I have seen way too many of my friends fall prey to these terrible terrible games and it has been nothing short of depressing at best. You deserve more attention for the level of research and fantastic writing you put into these beautiful videos.
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  22. 14:25 „stealing is the first step in making something new” it’s satisfying that you used such strong wording. The schizophrenic denial of the fact that all creative work iterates on prior work, is the foundation of current copyright law and it needs to be rejected. Great video as always!
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  23. 28:50 I have seen so many people talking about AI who overlook this exact point. Art is all about those little decisions that capture the artist's voice. I couldn't have put it better. Amazing video.
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  24. VERY excited to know your thoughts on this! your first rain world video is one of my favorite vids on the platform edit: i feel as though downpour comes together to be much more than the sum of its parts. i agree that moment to moment to slips and falters, but as a whole i came away glad that this was something i had experienced. finding pebbles as saint sticks out to me as one of very few moments a game has fully reduced me to tears. off topic, but i had a friend i recommended rain world to come to me and say that it had affected him emotionally in a way that he had wholly unanticipated. games as a medium are woefully under appreciated, and im glad there are games like rain world pushing those bounds.
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  25. the scene of the horses falling over while the stupid names were being read was gold.
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  26. Gonna be honest here, I disagree with a LOT of the things said in this video, but I respect the effort and thought that went into this project.
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  27. you said in your cruelty squad video that your goal for your videos is portray the emotions that games can convey. you really succeeded here, and i appreciate hearing someone get as angry as i do about the awfulness of the free market. also, this is about as clear and concise an explanation of crypto and NFTs as ive heard im so grateful for your channel. please keep making videos
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  28. This is what I love about the modern internet: videos on these obscure and forgotten relics
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  29. This is unironically one of the best pieces of cyberpunk media ive ever seen, it acknowledges how fucking stupid and insane some cyberpunk ideas are and makes them funny while also making them work
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  30. I love Gourmand. His quest is different but that's why I like it. He's a break from the darkness to experience a wholesome and wacky character. He shows that the world isn't all dark. There is still beauty and happiness in it, even through the cycles.
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  31. This video was amazing to watch. Really great analysis and very fair. Thanks so much for covering Rusted Moss! Faxdoc (she is the programmer and artist) was really excited watching it as she's a big fan of your channel. She's a huge Rain World fan and that's how she came to know of your channel and ended up watching all your other videos. Rain World was actually one of the inspirations of Rusted Moss and the non-linearity of it helped guide our design. Your analysis was really excellent to listen to. We have fixed some of the issues you brought up - our latest patch disables the unkillable enemy in the lab for some rooms that contain items. The mana stone thing is definitely an oversight.... we have an accessibility/quality of life update coming soon and we'll add that to the list of things to change. We'll have the mana stones also restore a player's health. We first introduced them early game and felt their behaviour worked fine but somehow overlooked how tedious it gets as the health pool of the players gets bigger and the damage caused by the pits gets more severe. (This will actually be our second rework of the mana stone. The first iteration of it also restored mana MUCH slower... oops). We've also started adding in markers on the map to show where past NPCs might be and other important areas players might want to revisit. I think having a player be able to add custom markers would be nice but Rusted Moss' systems weren't built to support that. It's the most ambitious project my friends and I have worked on; we only intended to work on it for a couple months and an increase in scope showed the growing pains of a system for a much smaller game.  You also dealt with the Eli and Nell fight in a really cool way! We didn't think about using the cricket bone whip for that. Thanks again for covering Rusted Moss! We all enjoyed watching it.
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  32. i wish i had this kind of insight when i was younger. i've always been into game design, and the clever tricks that enable games to create experiences, but only recently (with a lot of help from videos like this) have i started to grasp how huge the fulcrum of finance is, and how much it can shift the entire reason games exist at all, and the shape they take. thank you for this video, i'm going to share it around
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  33. The instant dog melee kills actually depend on if the dog is lunging at you or not. When it lunges and you attack, you catch it and do the slow animation. When you hit it while its just roaming, the kill is instant.
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  34. This Crypto shit reminds me of Cruelty Squad's world
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  35. I was having a terrible week, this video was just what I needed. How does one cultivate insight like this? Jimmy puts succinctly what I felt but could not easily express, how do you train this kind of critical thinking?
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  36. I don’t think I’ll ever forget attempting to get to five pebbles through chimney as the saint, having the screen transition and there to just be… Nothing. And then I realised what that implied.
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  37. Should mention that the second ending you can get as Survivor is less depressing if you bring pups with you. I'm pretty sure you can also meet up with Monk if you both get this ending, reuniting the two siblings with a new family to take care of. It's the ending you go for if you want to keep the pups you found.
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  38. Playing yugioh as a child and getting three-headed cyber dragon was a transformative experience. Felt like I was wielding some rare, forbidden dark magic at the age of ten. Even the rules themselves were arcane and mysterious, as like you said, nobody knew how to even play their cool cards.
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  39. I know what prompted the creation of this video and it's been giving me insane anxiety. What are we gonna do when the internet stops being the information highway? I pray that none of my worst fears comes into fruition, no matter the cynicism I may have in my heart.
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  40. Nobody on this platform is doing what you're doing, this is the only place for gaming analysis through the lenses of culture and theory even remotely of this caliber. All your work is so eminently resonant. As someone who thinks we traffic in the same online spaces and I'm just talking about myself here but part of the downwardly mobile. You get it, you get it all.
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  41. This is a Jimmy McGee video. All craftsmcgeeship is of the highest quality. It is encrusted with research and encircled with bands of retrospection, philosophy and humour. This production menaces with spikes of raw prescience. On the video is an image of slugcat. The slugcat is gaming. The artwork relates to the uploading of Rain World: A Guided Tour by Jimmy McGee of the Internet in the early summer of 2020. Basic Value: 10*
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  42. There is a big tree and then there is a big shadow.
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  43. The dedication and absolute blasphemy required to make a slug cat slot machine is truly unique. Also, isn't it such a funny statement that in cruelty squad, the best reward for the gun slots is arguably one of the worst guns ever made? I also really agree with the statement about watching gambling. I think the way twitch has normalized viewing gambling is insidious and harmful. There's no escaping this nightmare reality. Fantastic stuff as always.
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  44. Found your channel from the cruelty squad video a while ago and I'm glad i stuck around since, you're really good at this, definitely keep it up man
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  45. It's incredible how you built on Joeseph's Mario Odyssey's critique by relating it back to the Skinner Box. Every chapter brings previous points together in a way that makes the transition between them, and even other videos that I may have last watched months ago, seamless. I hope the algorhythm allows you to reach more people so your message, style, and creativity can be received by the larger audience it so clearly deserves.
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  46. I know most people watch your videos because there aren’t many reviews of the games you cover so I just want to say that since rain world, I stuck around because of the quality of your reviews. They are so well made and you are one of my very few subscriptions, so thank you for the great content! Oh and though I asked this last video, what are your thoughts on puzzle games?
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  47. I read somewhere once that the purpose of life was to waste the energy of the sun... Whoever said that must be a crypto billionaire by now. Love the video
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  48. Great video! As a Magic player, I completely agree with what you said about the financial aspects and random booster packs acting as more of an obstacle than anything else. The game itself is most fun when everyone is on a level playing field; it's awesome to fire up the printer and have everyone play with decks that would cost as much as a small house if you had to buy them for "real." The financialization starts to feel pretty parasitic the moment you step outside the skinner box.
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  49. "almost like it wasn't about paying artists fairly in the first place"
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  50. The fact that you are supposed to think like the slugcat, and know what the slugcat knows, is actually why I think the tutorials present in Downpour are fine. They teach things that you know for a fact your slugcat already knows. The things the game does not teach you in the base game are all things your slugcat might not know about. Things like food sources, how to avoid threats, do backflips, etc. It teaches you the two main food sources, ones that slugcat definitely already knew about thanks to them being present in the opening cutscene. That being danglefruit and batflies. It teaches you how to throw. We know from the cutscene it can do this too. How to grab things. You must know how to grab if you know how to throw. It teaches you how to do basic movements, which slugcat must know how to do given it's not... you know.. dead. It knows to hibernate to avoid the rain, because it's experienced this before. For that same reason, I think it makes perfect logical sense that they teach you how to use your gimmicks as the new slugcats. They know how to utilize most of their body's gimmicks already, so you should too, without needing to figure it out yourself- even if the way you figured it out would be very intuitive and easy, I think it still makes more sense to just be told directly because you still need to experiment for a second even with the most straightforward mechanics, which would make no sense if you're playing as a slugcat that already knows about something.
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  51. I feel like most reviews of this game totally miss the "Peter Thiel Libertarian nightmare future" subtext of Cruelty Squad, or barely mention it at all even though it's such a core part of the design, amazing review!
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  52. When the whole Bullet Hell section was happening, I was thinking to myself "If given the knowledge of the current market and how Gamers™ consume media, I wonder how the genre would've turned out" wondering of how the mechanics of those games like hitboxes and continues were influenced by arcades and then home media, and how it could've turned out And then the Gacha game appeared and all of that was thrown out the window because... They would've chosen whatever makes the more money, always and forever
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  53. >3:40 'In character email from Hoyo-verse' That's hilarious on so many levels... It's also incredibly sad
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  54. Wait, is this the prequel to "Cruelty squad"?
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  55. Monetization in games has genuinely ruined the sense of progression and excitement. No longer do i unlock things as i play, i just have to be remjnded that "actually this better item is in the PREMIUM PASS" and that in itself kills any motivation for spending time in a game. Apex legends od example and its reward system is abhorent, so i only play the game to wnjoy the skill expression it presents. Anything like cosmetics is moot and useless. Which is. Abummer. Gone are the days of unlocking cool free skins and colours off of natural progression or challenges. No visual expression is allowed unless you fork a shit ton of money. I do hope we all wake up to how predatory these systems are and express them in a way that inspired change. Awesome video, it made me.think qiite a bit about the state of everything we consume.
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  56. I will say that there's one big mistake for the story here. It wasn't the same nuke that you see kill Glasses, it was the first. After the war in Hawaii Russia nuked San Francisco in a retaliatory strike. It's why he's dead in Jacket's later hallucinations, and likely why he joined 50 Blessings. The second one was in response to the slaughter of the Russian leaders, and it wasn't just one. It's likely they wiped out the US. It likely wont change your views on the game, but it's different at least.
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  57. 16:03 An artist I respect a lot said something recently that I thought did a great job articulating how I've always felt about this subject: "i think with indie stuff in particular ppl treat spending money as a gesture of encouragement/goodwill/wanting to see a work continue etc rather than a transaction of product to consumer." A lot of arguments about the supposed immorality of piracy I think come from a pretty flimsy position of consumers attempting to justify their own inability to discern the difference between spending money on independently published art vs art that is owned and distributed by massive, anti-consumer (and anti-artist) publishing corporations. In my mind there's no reason to ever waste $70 on buying a new AAA game knowing that none of the people who actually made the game will see any of my money, but I'll gladly pay above the asking price for an indie game I love knowing that it directly supports the people who created it. Hopefully as corporate greed becomes more and more blatant it will open more people's eyes to the difference, and they can stop feeding their money into a soulless machine and direct it towards their fellow humans instead. Also great video, the visuals were a lot of fun! Despite the pretty depressing subject matter. The Touhou doujin game looked fun.
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  58. YES. ITS HERE. Even if these videos are hard to make, I want you to know I will sit here and watch each and every one of them! I also want to ask if you've seen the downpour DLC for rain world. its gotten me super excited!
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  59. Ammusing thing about TechBros is that they want a machine secretary but with how they shill and want the "human labor" to be integrated into this results in them being a secretary for the machine- the "ammusing" reverse of what they want the future to be And besides- the answer thet are trying to avoid is an answer to a question "What this new invention is freeing you to do with your life?" and "How much of your life you want something else to live for you?" This is a pontless thing that doesn't augment life in any way- these idiots want it to live life for you, and society without life is a dead one
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  60. You're a really great youtuber man I don't even follow you that closely but its obvious that you have a genuine passion for making straightforwardly good youtube videos
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  61. Immediately clicked as soon as I got the notification because this has become my new favorite channel for video essays. The quality of the narration, research and editing is always top notch and the scripts you come up with consistently illuminate your subject matter from new and insightful angles. I also find myself agreeing with your aesthetic sensibilities a lot, which is nice too. So all around great job with the stuff on this channel, looking forward to finishing this new video!
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  62. Babe wake up it's jimny
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  63. You knocked it out of the park with this one The b-roll (or a-roll in this case) is simply ingenious too It's funny how talking while showing off your desktop was viewed as lower effort even back in 2008, but seeing Windows XP (at least I think it's XP) being used in your neat presentation way is really quite impactful Thanks and see you in the next one!
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  64. I never thought I'd see the moment where the Cruelty Squad soundtrack not only went well with something, but even fit perfectly with the subject matter being discussed . Hit me hard in the dread center when I made the connection. Side note, there's an interesting GDC talk called "10,000 slot machines walk into a bar: adventures in randomness". It's mostly about the devs collecting data on how profitable it is to make shovelware (using some really advanced shovel technology), but they actually got a surprising amount of players out of the ordeal. The machine zone taketh, and the machine zone taketh.
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  65. As a massive ARPG addict, for the past 2 decades I've had my eyes peeled for any Diablo adjacent games. There's been far more disappointments than diamonds found, but even when being let down is to be expected, what stands out in D4 is its absolute lack of innovation and originality. Most games had SOMETHING new to offer, even if the idea didn't quite hold up. At least there was a visible effort. D4 (and D3 aside from its RMAH) feels so void of this spark gameplay wise. It's almost as if most creative resources went into monetization schemes and nothing more to spare.
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  66. This is a really timely video for me. My state has recently seen video slot machines start popping up in bars and convenience stores. It makes me sick seeing so many people fall for them wherever I look. As always, well done, and I can't wait to see the rest of the series.
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  67. I try to share your essays whenever you release a new one. Keep up the amazing work, you are one of the best on the platform!
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  68. Great video, my only criticism is the lack of focus of scratch tickets, they are fucking everywhere and make life hell for addicts, cause its just 5-10 dollars for a fun 'game' that takes minutes to do. my mom has spent god knows how much money on gambling and shes almost never stepped foot in a casino. its the disgusting pervasiveness that gets to me most of all, theres no where she can go that doesnt tempt her. but its just cause of that connection that i even wanted it covered, you did a great job anyways.
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  69. but what if mario was an nft?
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  70. lets... jump........ right....... into it..........
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  71. The "lucky slugcat" slot is delightfully perverse. This is your best work yet. Keep it up!
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  72. "People asked for it, so here's the music from my videos" AWW YEAH!!!
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  73. Mandalore, redlettermedia and now Jimmy. Today, my cup runneth over.
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  74. It's become one of my favorite games too over the past couple months. Exploring Pebbles and seeing the ending for the first time were especially mind blowing, even if I had no idea what was happening at the time. I think the game captures the spirit of what made super metroid so great: mysterious, connected environments that sometimes don't even have any enemies around to deal with. It lets you just explore and take in the world at your own pace (until you realize the rain is coming, at least). Also agreed on the death pits: the light gray at the bottom of screen can be really hard to notice. But even without that, the placement of some of the pits makes no sense when there's solid ground on the screen right below you.
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  75. Don’t think i’ve ever commented on a video before but i just feel so strongly about this one, i genuinely think it’s the most important video I’ve seen on one of the most important topics of our future. In a time when it feels like most vocal opinions on this topic are either ignorant or completely insane, thanks for this extremely enlightening video.
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  76. they should remaster Ulysses but every time you don't understand a reference you can pay $0.99 to get a footnote
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  77. JIMMY!!!! RELEASE THE PAY TO WIN 3 VIDEO AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!!! Fr tho super excited to watch this, every time you post a new video it's like Christmas. I hope you're having a great day!
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  78. You have outdone yourself! This is up there with Folding Ideas' videos about tech grifts in terms of research and quality! I'm glad I've been subscribed to you and to be able to see your eventual growth as a great essayist!
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  79. your videos are amazing, the editing on these are superb
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  80. BASED
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  81. I think the way we see the Saint's experience of his curse is lacking the context of the time between his cycles-- when you first mentioned the developer commentary my initial thought was that the Saint experiences some endless loop of birth, awakening and rebirth, but I think the fact that you see him as an echo, that the karmic cycle repeats as soon as he ascends the void worm, and the fact you can't play him until you play through the game again all implies that the Saint is the end point of everything that happens in all of time in the Rain World universe, his death and rebirth only occurs after everything that could happen has happened. It's hard to put into words, but I guess I mean to say that the developer's comment is just a matter-of-fact definition of the Saint's experience and not something that collapses the meaning I get from the ending, which seems pretty comprehensible to me.
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  82. And now I’m thinking about how so many social media sites integrate slot machine design- scrolling through content sounds a lot like the machine zone. Your presentation and scripts are unparalleled, can’t wait for more.
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  83. Anyone concerned about watching due to the heavy the GoT spoilers, please be. One of his points goes into mid season FIVE without ANY warnings. Shame on you, Jimmy Mc-WOKE!!😠😠
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  84. i absolutely LOVE gourmand cuz 1. hekkin chonker 2. most spear damage 3. he knows hes fat 4. you can fall on lizor to possibly 1 shot 5. he craft 6. he has good slugtree ending 7. he has almost any item in his stomach 8. he slide so fast 9. infinite rolling time 10. cute
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  85. Cannot believe it took a bajillion years for youtube to show this channel to me since it's very much hitting all my buttons, but nevertheless glad it finally did,
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  86. I attended a horse race and was immediately taken in by the excitement, even without placing a bet. Social gambling is something else
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  87. Although the endings for the Shadow Realm NPCs are all anti-climatic, I think the final brawl between Leda and the player is a novel idea, and I personally felt pretty moved by it, but maybe that was mostly from the superb music and voice acting, that encounter has some of the best line delivery in the DLC, along with Igon
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  88. 1:16:27 "Whereas Ikaruga expands the shoot em up, Dodonpachi asserts the primacy of bullets." As a big STG nerd I absolutely loved this line (and this entire section of the video (and the entire video)). The purity of the STG genre is I think the thing that always keeps me coming back to it. The inherent reward of practicing and seeing yourself improve at a difficult, tightly designed 20-30 minute game about being a dot avoiding other dots is imo infinitely more worthwhile than a 300 hour long open world skinner box.
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  89. Damn jimmy, heartwarming ending you chucked in there, I have given to many hours of my life to bad media criticism YouTube videos for art ive I’ll never bother to engage with first hand
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  90. 'Stakeholder value is when you pay out to shareholders and pretend to benefit the environment' gave me a real good laugh!
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  91. So much video game analysis content on YouTube consists of generic jumbles of tired review jargon and references to gamer in-jokes. I really appreciate the lens through which you view games and your willingness to interpret them. Really refreshing stuff.
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  92. your voice is so relaxing, and coupled with the music I had trouble staying awake- in a good way
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  93. The video hooked me all the way to the end as i was curious on how gambling can be so addicting after some of my relatives fell to it, i guess it makes sense now but realizing the maliciousness of gambling slot and pachinko machines and how they're intentionally designed to turn you into an addict is terrifying. Thanks for this, can't wait for part 2
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  94. I was a fan of your rain world video - I thought your editing and writing style fit the subject matter very well. Excited to see how this video covers a very different kind of game.
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  95. Truly astonishing how underviewed you are. Some of the most thought-provoking, well-researched, well-crafted video essays I've ever had the pleasure of watching. Kudos and godspeed
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  96. christ, beyond the great script, such a incredible presentation
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  97. I feel like a lot of the gameplay criticism of Hotline 2 comes down to how quickly you adapted to the emphasis on gunplay. On my first playthrough, I picked it up pretty fast and only struggled significantly with one level (Dead Ahead). There are some very annoying and downright bad things about Hotline 2 but I never felt like the gunplay emphasis was much of an issue. Some parts you noted as being bad I can't remember ever having problems with (Tony's first level, for example). I'm sure it's just a person to person thing but I was fine for most of the game
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  98. i've always had trouble reconciling two beliefs i have, which is that i don't think intellectual property should exist but i do think artists should be paid for their work. it's clear that the current structure of IP law exists to benefit rent seeking dipshits above all else, but it's hard to know what a viable solution could look like. anyway, great vid, keep up the good work
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  99. In an effort to not vomit up everything in my skull, I waited 5 minutes and had a cup of coffee before typing this out. Discovering your channel this year has kept me on the right side of sane. Having a digital recording of another human being who seems to see what I see is important, apparently. I think the worst thing that has happened with respect to games is that the groundwater has been poisoned. Im 23, which is 'young' still somehow, but when i was a kid, you could find an old consoles and handhelds for bargains, and now "vintage" anything is infested with resellers and scalpers. Only nintendo still offers limited access to the creations that gave them the money to be what they are today. The pathway to something else but triple a schlock gets thinner, and the toll gets more expensive every year. But i only even have an idea of "something else" because im not a kid today. My boyfriend has 2 children, and watching them grow up in this environment has been uncomfortable. They dont know anything but battlepasses, skin sales, IP katamari ball nonsense. My partner understands that implicitly, he's older than I am, even if he's not as distressed about AI as I am. Im also left feeling like I'm looking at something like the end of all things, even though I'm sure there still might be people in 100 years. I also don't have any answers. Ive had no family for maybe 3 years now, and it's not gotten any easier to be a sole human. I think the thing which causes me the most discomfort isnt the idea of getting hit by a bus tomorrow, its the idea that i will have lived 50 more years from this point, and I will find that the other side is worse. That's what scares me the most. Be well.
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  100. AI is just the neon lit sign for all the issue with our current society. And because of that, its made people realize what our lives mean in the eyes those with all the capital in out lives. And thats driven more and more people to strike, even those in industries not immediately threatened by the rise of AI.
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  101. "This video contains spoilers for Hachette v. Internet Archive" gold
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  102. Great video as always, just a few random points that popped into my mind while watching. - I find it fascinating how stuff that tried to obfuscate its gambling nature has progressively become more comfortable with not doing so. I don't think it's a coincidence that the highest grossing gacha game is based on horse racing, or that the card game metazoo quickly devolved into being only about the secondary market and by extension NFTs ( the history of metazoo is very interesting, an entire card game designed to be virtually unplayable). - I really like how you mentioned that the 'zone' that these machines put you into can be enjoyed second hand. I recently saw that Twitch opened a gambling category where people just play online slots (as you mentioned a lot of them partnered with the site they are betting on) and I couldn't believe the viewer numbers be organic but they absolutely are. It's baffling to watch, especially seeing how people react in the chat. - I think it's very important to mention that you also enter the 'zone' by playing gacha games as free2play, a lot of my friends cope about 'it isn't evil or gambling since I play free2play' which I've seen has led multiple people to eventually dropping money into the system anyway, it just slowly grooms you towards it. I think we like to rationalize this free2play gambling as enjoying the thrill without the stakes as being second hand but it really isn't.
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  103. Whoa ok I just finished the video and this is great! The way you touched on the popular talking points of AI with more nuance and depth was nice. I especially loved the more neglected talking points you touched on, which were just as, if not even more impactful. Also the way you related the problems of AI to broader themes you've been exploring (content-creator cycles, gambling, etc) and the emotional climax at the end were muah chefs kiss. Looking forward to more stuff by you :D
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  104. I've been calling these "proxy currencies' scrip, cause that's basically what it is. You can only spend them in their company store and they regulate the exchange rate and how much you get.
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  105. I was relistening to this video over some gameplay since it can be hard to find a good backdrop at times, and I found a couple more things to say than just "oh nice vid". The music you made and played at the end was very good for it's purpose, whether you made it as it's own piece of crescendo or specifically for that part of the video, it was very fitting. What I wanted to talk about (initially when I started writing this comment) was about Richter and his plotline. If I remember correctly, one of the writers lost their mom at some point roughly during HM2's development time (or some period shortly before). From what I understand, his story was more of a bit of self-reflection and grievance over losing her than just an expression of internalized violence amorally, although I do believe it's pretty good from that angle. I just think that's a bit of context that may help you understand that section of the game a bit more. Ultimately it can be more than just one or the other. The irony of Hotline Miami 1 and 2 being so ahead of it's time is crazy in retrospect. 1 being monumental in the moment, inspiring a lot internet culture even to this day a decade later. 2 having a lot to say and being completely misunderstood in 2015 and receiving far better feedback over 5 years later (which is quite a bit later for a game made by a small team). It makes me wish that the duo had stuck it out and tried their hands at other projects after freeing themselves from the "shackles" of their cocaine cowboy beginnings. While the nuke has many purposes narratively, it was also a direct way for them to say "look, we've done Hotline Miami. Stop asking for more" in a rather literal way - I believe they said at some point it was one of the many motivations for ending the game like that. After all the backlash, they kinda fell out of the public eye. Dennis eventually went silent, but Jonatan has kept somewhat active on Twitter, and has alluded to working off and on with a passion project since 2021. I think making the level editor in the midst of everyone complaining to them really broke their drive to make games, which is a damn shame to see from a duo that obviously had a lot they could deliver, and the sheer connections that would allow them to pull off just about anything they were interested in. On one hand I want to say "time will tell if they ever decide to release something, together or otherwise, again" but on the other I'm not so sure it will happen all this time later as it is.
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  106. im studying AI in university, and most of the scummy things mentioned in this video are actually being taught by the professors in my classes as the correct way to use AI AI and ML has so much potential, its just being misused and mislabeled right now great video, keep it up
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  107. Thank you sincerely for not adding those final two words to the end of the script
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  108. "In Clean Hit, you're supposed to sneak around outside." I've beaten this game twice and had no idea. Wow. Edit: "The level, Fun and Games, has a liberal amount of windows scattered around, which foreshadows Hotline Miami's sequel." Got a nice belly laugh out of me.
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  109. I think my favorite Rain World experience was when I first killed a king vulture. I was so hyped I told everyone, even the people that didn’t know about the game. That level of genuine excitement is hard to feel in games nowadays (even in some old games).
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  110. we've found him, the man prophesied in history, the one man who could possibly review hellsinker your channel is wonderful, thank you
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  111. Jimmy, your videos have always made an impression on me. I always seem to exit your videos with a viewpoint I wouldn't have considered before. I aspire to be a creative on your level someday. You're an inspiration to me and a lot of other people, knowingly or unknowingly. I look forward to whatever you may accomplish next. Hope youre doing great.
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  112. The final boss being the embodiment of the dynamic lighting engine is a nice touch. They knew how to play to the game's strengths.
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  113. incredible dig into what most people would never consider about ai, thanks for this
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  114. I remember being unable to get into this several years ago between the scarce items + the crafting tree, difficult encounters, and awkward aiming/fighting. Maybe I should revisit it. That research piece you did on Estonia was very well done. I always appreciate how you do your homework on these.
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  115. soon enough chunkopops will be real
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  116. I was just rewatching a bunch of your videos the past two days and I've been eagerly looking forward to the continuation of your masterpiece of a video "Gambling and the Desire Machine." I'm ecstatic to see a new upload from you. Your videos are informative, thought-provoking, excellently paced, excellently written, and thoroughly enjoyable. I sincerely hope your channel takes off; not just because "This man needs internet fame," but because more people need to hear the messages you're delivering to the viewers.
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  117. I think another thing about collectible cards (specifically mtg) is that yes the objects are functional, but there are also artificial distinctions between them. I was upset recently that I opened a card that I wanted, because it was in an art style that I don't like. As a game piece it's the exact same, but my odds of getting the version I want are artificially cut to make me want to invest more in packs/the secondary market
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  118. Nice to see the Adam Curtis in here. I appreciate what you take from his style and what you bring to it. Coziest videos on the site.
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  119. The funny thing about the economic structure of the universe of this game is that even if you (the protagonist) brings back death to humanity and gives life value again, your still just a commodity. Nothing has really changed, while the "hero" has ended the corrupt system of the control of death by the elite everyone in the universe is still judged and valued not by corrupt corporate leaders but higher beings who only see souls as things that can give them something not individuals that have self worth. Even the 2nd ending is just the main character talking to a God being that is encouraging them to continue using others for their own benefit simply due to having more "energy value" then most other humans or general living beings in the universe and to continue living that "CEO mindset" that other characters have been encouraging each other to do for a fair portion of the game. So after mountainous layers of speech like text explaining and declaring the decay of humanity by getting rid of death the protagonist is still doing the same thing in this "golden age" he brings about now just on a seemingly spiritual level. So what is the lesson? That there really is no way out of the system? Humans are doomed to be seen by literally everything in the universe as a living stock to be bought, sold and used regardless of who or what is in control?
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  120. This channel strikes the perfect balance between real-world comparisons and their counterparts in the digital world, a perspective often lacking in many other video essays. Thank you for making such great content! Ban slots.
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  121. 1:02:50 you can actually tell because there's a dark gradient near the bottom of the screen if it will kill you, I think they should have made it more noticeable since new players won't really notice the gradient.
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  122. Dropping everything. Jimmy McGee episode
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  123. Awesome video, and awesome series. I really think educating people about this is super important. Two things that have been on my mind I really hope you eventually mention: 1. Mobile game design, with their multiple currencies and wait timers to ingrain themselves in your daily schedule to maximize the sunk cost fallacy and so on (see: "Let's Go Whaling," game design conference talk in 2016 by Tribeflame CEO Torulf Jernström) 2. The modern trend of Japanese Gacha games, which have combined slot machines with a desperate desire for physical and emotional intimacy (going so far as to allow players to "marry" hyper-sexualized girls they get out of loot boxes)
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  124. Publishers finding new ways to make things simultaneously harder to acquire and pay their artists/authors even less than they were previously is a disappointing, but ultimately, predictable outcome. Love your content as always! A surprise to see two uploads from you in quick succession, but a welcome one.
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  125. One of my favorite moments in Rain World, whether it was intentional by the devs or not: The early game teaches you to do anything to get food and survive, so you try so put anything in your mouth just to get enough food. Because of that, once you get to Moon your first instinct is to grab those flying neurons and try to eat them. The first time I got there I did exactly just that, I didn't even realize Moon's attempt at communicating with body language and I just swallowed them like they were the most delicious thing in the universe and I walked away, I acted like a beast with no intelligence because I was a beast with no intelligence, the only thing on my mind was food. When I got to 5 pebbles, I realized I fucked up after getting the mark of communication. I wasn't just a beast anymore, I suddenly had a purpose greater than just shoving anything in my mouth
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  126. bought the album, thanks for the great stuff:yougotthis:
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  127. 14:50 S-tier edit
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  128. it's 2024 (still), you really need to bring something new to the table to make me watch another video about super mario bros. ...you did it, well done lol Your gambling research really shines through in the section where you describe the moment to moment gameplay, in a way that I didn't expect.
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  129. "there is no way to discern from a safe or unsafe fall" that actually isn't true! you can tell which falls are death pits based on whether or not there's a black fade at the bottom of the screen. at 1:03:04, you can see the screen has a slight black fade at the bottom, indicating a death pit. it's a very minute detail though, so newer players wouldn't recognize them as easily as an experienced or veteran player. another way to recognize a death pit from a regular fall is if there's an actual way to get down there other than taking a pipe. if there's no poles or vents leading downward, then it's most likely a death pit. in rooms such as the one at 1:03:13, you can see poles and vents that would bring you downward, and no black fade. falling is still death though, there's no floor at the bottom of this room. SLIGHT ENDGAME SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT! one outlier is the pitfall right before the entrance to the depths, there's no vents, pipes, or poles leading downward, however it isn't a death pit. it's just a long fall, but the fall damage does insta kill you because it's such a long fall. you have to cling to the side of the pit to make it down safely.
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  130. I think living here in Germany it's a great "what if" for game arcades since arcade games were quickly deemed exploitative towards adolescents and as such not free for anyone under 18 to peruse, hence why you don't have any arcades at all here. I play a lot of fighting games and one interesting resulting tidbit is the amount of usage the arcade stick sees compared to the US. Even today I'd argue that while fighting games obviously had their origin in the arcade, a lot nowadays really didn't grow up with it anymore, so the arcade stick is a weird "vanity relic" which technically offers a lot of disadvantages even to currently popular input devices (not to mention costing ludicrous amounts of money). So obviously here with no one growing up in the arcades the effects on gaming culture in general are really interesting to see. Great video as always.
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  131. 36:00 “Cause when you lose your world, there’s no way of getting out of it.” Damn.
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  132. This is EXACTLY what I needed after an eight hour shift. Been wondering when the next part of this project would drop.
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  133. This was very educational and thought provoking, thank you. Stellar presentation as always. Someone very close in my family has a gambling addiction that also affects me, so this stuff sickens me and elicits quite personal reactions- I live in Illinois and there are slot machines in gas stations, restaurants, and even some popping up in shops. It's gross how accessible and inescapable they are, even internet gambling aside. Thanks for teaching the history and how they function. Looking forward to future videos in this series.
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  134. Crypto "play to earn" games sound like games from people who pretend that they care about gameplay/art side of videogames for people who pretend hat they care about gameplay/art side of videogames. In the same way like NFT holders will say that "I just like the art", those people will say "i just like the game". And they will say that not because it's true, but because they hope to bring more people in - but the only people who's in is the same kind of people - pretending they're for something more then just making money, it's same pyramid sht as allways
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  135. There’s just something so satisfying about diving into the intricacies of video games. I don’t know why but hyper-analyses of video game mechanics and stories are some of the most entertaining watches on YouTube, and you’re definitely the best at it!
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  136. Quality video and coverage as always Jimmy. Recent events/threats to the internet are disconcerting to say the least, another effort in the long string of attempts to stifle/censor the medium. I guess this is something we'll just have to deal with every four or five years where these internet illiterate politicians actively try and make the world more bleak and disappointing. Also Super Monkey Ball 2 music good.
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  137. Another very good video... You have a very evocative writing style. "A world for money to live in or a world for people to live in" is a line that I think will stick with me for a while.
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  138. I wish video games were real
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  139. 18:10 I really despise how the "Flow State" as a model has been effectively delegated to a tagline for nootropic shills and clickbait youtubers. The original book and research by Csíkszentmihályi contain very interesting and holistic interpretations of motivation that could be extremely beneficial to a lot of us if we would just stop bastardizing the theory. The whole point was to research an internalized form of motivation in substitute of external rewards to progress society away from their dependence on symbolic factors of motivation (eg. Money), something that becomes extremely moot when paired with the average "Grindset" channel mentality. Eitherway, great video. I completely relate with your apprehension for the term.
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  140. oh my god your lucky slugcat slot machine is beautiful, if i saw THAT machine specifically at a casino i'd have to gamble. wait shit that's how they get u. with the slonkcat
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  141. Really glad to see this come out, your initial Rain World video was what tempted me to give the game a second, third, and eventually fourth chance. Each time I quit the game, I eventually made it back to your video and would always pause right as you reached Moon. Somehow that moment kept convincing me the effort would be worth it, and evidently it was. The entirety of Five Pebbles as a region was something to behold unspoiled. So thanks for that man, I mean it. For Downpour though, it's pretty vindicating to know I wasn't alone in my criticisms of it. This is obviously a consequence of the extra Slugcats being made by different devs, but the entire design of Downpour feels much more "Video Gamey". That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it was something I kept feeling now and then while playing, and that feeling never fully went away. That being said, The Saint really was the closest I'd gotten to re-experiencing Rain World again. Putting aside how much the whole world you explore had changed, the entire ending sequence managed to give me the same confusion and awe as the initial Survivor ending, except with an even stronger sense of finality. It's honestly an excellent example of how important it is to stick the landing to a story. Without it, I might have had a much more middling opinion of the whole DLC.
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  142. Any day you upload a new video is a good day. Thanks Jimmy, I know it doesn't mean much but I had an awful month this June, and ending with a new video is just about one of those things you don't believe could happen in such an annoying streak of bad luck. Have a good day and keep giving it your all!
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  143. I am drunk as fuck and have zero interest in Dark Souls and Elden Tree or whatever, but Jimmy tho so we there for it
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  144. You have an amazing voice to listen to! Its very relaxing to watch your videos, im super grateful to have watched your rainworld one :D
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  145. just finished. i dont understand how you consistently get better everytime. some of the most unique stuff in this format. bravo for all of part 6
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  146. I actually loved Gourmand. To me food bar was his scouting mission for his kids back home. As he is trying to find a new home for everyone, so he is going around trying to eat everything to see if it is edible. He also unlocks slug pups so I love him. Although maybe cause I'm a bit of a sap for parents. Artificer made me cry for that same reason.
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  147. Gotta say, that transition at 14:50 was so clean I thought it was the same boss
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  148. I put Rain World on my wishlist and try to return to this video once I experienced it. People love it so much, now I want to play it myself.
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  149. Your sentiment that this is all a response to a disenfranchised populace is interesting. I buy it.
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  150. I love the style of this game in a way I can't really explain. I'd like to imagine a character from the game's universe being utterly confused if they saw a game more reminiscent of our universe, something pleasing to our eyes but harsh and grating to theirs.
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  151. one of the best channels on youtube by far
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  152. Very timely that this is coming out days after Unitys latest and greatest bout of pants-shitting. The future is starting to come into focus; with no frontiers left to conquer, commercialization curdles, turns inward. We perfect our modes of autoconsumption, cannabilizing the past. Individiulization (personalization) approaches its zenith; people at the top languish in mirrored chambers of stimulus response, short-circuiting dopamine loops. Those at the bottom of the machine are absorbed into it, converted into human meat. No one remains human for long.
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  153. Beautiful video. I had many criticisms with downpour, but couldn’t understand why no one else seemed to share them. I’m not an active member of the rain world community, so I didn’t realize exactly how much the expansion was geared toward the fandom’s enjoyment. I realize now that the expansion really wasn’t made for me, and while that’s not going to make my time with it more enjoyable, it does at least give me a bit of closure. Once again, amazing video. Ever since Joseph Anderson was lost to the Witcher hell, I’ve been relying on smaller creators for my long-winded video game analysis, and I have to say you’re my favorite. Slightly rude, intrusive question, but do you know if the next video is going to be the next in the pay to win series, or something different?
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  154. Will my sleep be destroyed tonight? Maybe. Thanks for the upload Jimbo, can't wait to watch.
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  155. The ending was extremely well said, this is definitely the best video on rain world
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  156. God this rules in a horrifying kind of way, I am so excited for the rest of the series
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  157. I already agreed on how terrible AI is and while working in a business context I let this opinion be known because its a useless invention but to avoid paying people wages which needs to be fought in both legal and debate. I also like to draw and create art in my pass time and the idea of me making something and it being devalued by it being stolen by an algorithm infuriates me. AI also lacking a human soul and creative intent is important because humans can feel when something is lifeless or soulesss instinctively. Fighting AI is fighting for meaningful media. I am glad you made this video as it is important to share the dangers of this new "innovation".
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  158. Diablo is one of the games i never really got into. I played the demo of 1, and then i got full version of 2, and had a good time with them. The demo was nicely paced, good snacky, self-contained experience. 2 was more of everything, loved the increases variety in every regard, making the moment to moment gameplay more interesting. But once i completed grasslands and went on to desert in Mario fashion, i though "oh, this is gonna be more of the same until the end, isn't it." And that was it for me. Played through the first area with every class, and had a good time. And quitting after that was over. I never appreciated this kind of mind numbing gameplay loop for extended periods of time. Good for an afternoon but then i gotta go do something else. So thanks for your thoughts on it. I'd never play a game for this many hours if i didn't have fun. Makes me miss out on a lot, i think. But that's okay
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  159. I really like how, after you get through the armor, the core itself seems to have very low health. It spends the entire game desperately throwing things in your way - hordes of undead, armed guards, killer robots, valuable scientists near the end, even the rest of its boss fight - but ultimately as soon as your shots are finally landing where they should have been this entire time, the AI is ended in one quick burst of laser fire. Suppose that says a bit more about Estonia's history with oppressors.
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  160. I have sunk more hours into games older than 10 years than I have modern games. You can see the hand reaching directly for your wallet, reflected in the mechanics you are participating in nowadays. When something comes out that bucks that trend, it's like a breath of fresh air it's so darn rare. Still, there are a lot of smaller games or less mainstream games that manage to avoid the toxic trends. As people get squeezed for money, gaming is going to get smaller, it's gonna start cannibalizing itself and its own audience, and it's probably going to crash again. Hopefully when it comes back, it'll be better than ever.
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  161. I'm mostly through the video and it has a lot of interesting insights, especially for me as someone who never really enjoyed the moment to moment gameplay of the Souls games. I do, however, have a counterpoint in regards to what you said about player expression: Difficulty and imbalance between playstyles can, beyond a certain degree, very directly influence and restrict player expression. It's hard to imprint what you like onto your playthrough when the game simply determines you as not good enough to play that way due to its mechanics, when in other games the equivalent of this personal taste it may even be the easiest way to play. This can lead to a player finding joy in something different, or quite often simply detaches one from identifying with their player characters as they intially hoped, severing the connection between player and medium that player expression exists to create through difficulty one may not be able to overcome.
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  162. bump edit: "every ai project has a tumor in it's heart" hell yeah man, something to always keep in mind when thinking about these systems in every single aspect, especially when it comes to anything dealing with or handling the public at large. they should only be a tool and we'll need to train ourselves to resist the easy way of clapping our hands at the first instance of something seeming finished.
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  163. saying that disliking the difficulty was a sin against humanity is kind of aggresive but this was a cool game
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  164. I have a very complicated relationship with Rain World. One unique to me I hope as I discovered it when it was new. It became a hyperfixation but at the time I didn't own a computer, so I adored a game I couldn't play. I was younger back then. I drew the slug cat and the lizards and ended up even founding the Rain World amino (which I have since only caused problems in and can't in good conscience show my face again on the site) It consumed a lot of my brain power during middle school (I am now graduated. I am young yes I know) and I still hadn't even played it despite what it meant to me. It's been years since I last really thought of this game. And having stumbled upon this video it brings back a lot of sweet memories and good times. I hope I'll think about it more. And appreciate it better now as a work of art. And I also hope I will, for once, actually play it.
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  165. After hearing a bit about this game (very late after its release), I was looking for exactly this kind of video and I'm so happy to have found it. I don't have the time to delve into any games right now. While I know that it is impossible to experience the feeling of a game without playing it, I wanted to experience what I could without watching a full multi-hour speed run or lets play. The short 10-30 minute reviews I found just didn't seem to capture the atmosphere of the game. Thank you for making this video. Your guided tour through this world was a treat.
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  166. 34:04 I really like the point made here about the systems of the game not matching its themes, as someone who's loved and defended this game since its release most people articulate the problem as the game just being harder worse designed than the first, which to an extent I've always conceded, but the way you propose the idea of a different or nonexistent scoring system to match certain character's gameplay really fits in line with how I've viewed the game. The way the pacifist stages punish you for going berserk definitely could've been extrapolated to more of the levels.
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  167. I used to play devil's advocate for A.I., thinking it could enable small creators (who'd otherwise lack the skill or budget) to take on bigger projects, but I've come around. I still think the tech is cool, and if we lived in a communist utopia, it could be a nice productivity tool - but we don't, and it's mostly being used by big corpos to cut corners, avoid paying workers and churn out soulless sludge. Plus, all the ethical violations in sourcing + labelling datasets. No matter how cool I find it, the human cost is too great.
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  168. As a reformed Nintendo fan and lover of one of nintendos forgotten franchises “FZERO” I try to stay positive that gaming will get better and we will rebuke the fucking endless monetisation reboots and sequels capitalism and mindless bullshit……. But every year a bit more of my hope slips away and yet another thing gets gobbled up by some super corp to never see the light of day again and is cannibalized to feed the ever eternal yearly releases of whatever loot box stuffed sports or cod Skinner box they come up with next
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  169. I was waiting for this since the rain world guided tour
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  170. This was fantastic. I have been battling youtube to not see casino ads for weeks & they finally stopped coming lol I hope this doesn't re-trigger the algorithm to serve them to me. + I will be reading that Addiction By Design book, that looked intriguing. Thank you looking forward to more videos.
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  171. Absolute banger of a video mate, super high quality and hooked from start to end - cant wait to see your future work!
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  172. Marvellous! I feel that this game was sorely overlooked!
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  173. The occasional prop surfing in this video cracked me up. Good job!
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  174. AI? The 'JimmyMcGee' youtube channel is the only desire machine I need! Another amazing video. No matter what I already know about a subject going in, you always find a way to show me it's so much worse in a compelling and entertaining way.
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  175. always love your videos, it's nice to see other people feeling the same way about the impending ai revolution and its promise of a bland, samey future
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  176. I'm not going to watch this video because I'd like to play it for myself but I wanted to comment and say since your Rain World video two years ago you've put out great stuff time and time again!
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  177. I really don't have too much to add as a comment, but I've been following your videos ever since the first rain world guided tour and your videos have always been a delight to see on my subscription tab You definitely deserve infinitely more subscribers for how insanely well polished your content is, and I'm hoping you get the recognition you deserve soon enough!!
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  178. Honestly suprised you haven't finished zeroranger. That game and void stranger's later portions are the most insane things I have ever seen done in games. Both games inflicted me with a religious fervour no other games have. I hope you do manage to finish zeroranger, even if the thoughts you had and explained were also ones that have been floating in my head lol. Great video as always
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  179. I finished the video for the first time after watching your video on the first game and this one over the course of a week, and I have to say they're fantastic! I don't agree with everything said about Wrong Number, but you explained your points extremely well and I can totally see why you feel the way you do about this game. I'm still very conflicted on wrong number myself, because while the first game was a more homogeneous fantastic experience, to me the highs of WN surpass the first game, but it also has a few very low moments (looking at you Dead Ahead and Stronghold), so I still have no idea whether I prefer the first game or not almost a year after playing them back to back for the first time. Hotline Miami 1 and 2 are going to be endlessly discussed for ages because there's so much to talk about. while I've made a video on HLM 1 myself, I didn't want to tackle Wrong Number right after because it's such a massive game, so it's very intimidating to talk about. but anyway, your videos were very interesting to watch, and I can't wait to see more from you. you gained a new subscriber. palpatine voice "We will watch your career with great interest."
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  180. If it means anything, I think this video definitely earned that use of Claire de Lune. Fantastic work as always, hope this channel gets more eyes on it.
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  181. 7:40 Oblivion was clearly ahead of its time
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  182. On my first playthrough I ate Moon. We had very different experiences.
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  183. man the parts in subterranean with the light shining through look like you were playing minecraft then a shader suddenly enabled itself while you were playing
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  184. i got this game purely cause of the first few seconds of the video curious archive did on the game. i've seen one of the bloodworm mosquito things get eaten by a lizard, and that same lizard get killed by the mother. this happened after the same happened to me btw.
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  185. hey jimmy, your videos are always one of the highlights of month, thank you for making them.
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  186. Yours is a criminally underated channel
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  187. Fantastic video. You truly are one of the best creators on this platform, the comments you made about the algorithm and the removal of any chance of discovery on here are so painfully true and is the reason youtube is slowly becoming less and less enjoyable. I'm tired of "video "essays"" where the entire video is about as useful as reading the wikipedia article with no extra opinion or statements added, and it feels like more and more youtubers materialise out of nowhere and repeat the same format of tried-and-true slop that the algorithm loves to spread around. On the more positive side, I always love to see a new upload from you :) looking forward to whatever is next in the works! (P.s. love the inclusion of some internet club, fits the vibe of the video to a T)
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  188. a sacrifice to the algorithmic machine in a form of a youtube comment keep on going jimmy, this shit is good. love your music btw, sick tunes
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  189. The quality of your vids are absolutely insane. I fully expect you to blow up in the next few months and become another FULL TIME CONTENT CREATOR shilling NEBULA to me.
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  190. You uploaded the AoE 2 video around this time last year and it's one of my favorites to go back to when I need to put on something cozy. Thanks for the new upload Jimmy!
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  191. shout out to train levels fr, gotta be one of my favorite genders
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  192. Ive played this game since it came out because it was in one of the original Humble Bundles, I’m so glad you covered it.
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  193. I've been following your content since the Cruelty Squad video and honestly you have a great way of breaking down more complex topics. Despite some disagreements I may have regarding the video, you make a very compelling argument for the direction of how the game industry has changed overall. Things really aren't like they used to and this video truly encompasses people who may feel that way but don't know how to word it. Excellent work. I can't wait to see you tackle digital media. I can see a lot of interesting talking points to make.
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  194. I think what I love about this video the most is that I really get a sense of your personal experience with the game, and although I can't relate to a lot of the spiritual elements in the same way you clearly do it's always great to hear a different perspective. I actually enjoyed Gourmand the most of any of the slugcats, maybe because it's so similar to me. I very much focus on the material and physical aspects of life. I'm an engineer, and my favorite parts of Rain World have always been the moment-to-moment problem solving - coming across a situation and taking the time to stop and plan my way through it - which Gourmand is the most oriented towards, with its crafting and deliberate movement/combat. Also of all the endings going and building a family/community in the world resonated with me the most, and going back to replay different slugcats my first choice is now always outer expanse as opposed to ascension if possible. Maybe that's my favorite part of Downpour, that through both the old and new slugcats players get presented with both options in various forms, and in many cases can choose which they want as their ending.
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  195. Another fantastic video, Jimmy. I genuinely really appreciate how well-paced your videos are. Your passion bleeds throughout. Thank you.
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  196. 1:05 fuck this room
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  197. The codex rework highlights a broader issue with D4. As you said, skills alone don't carry a build. You need a bunch of synergistic Aspects to make a build work, and there's no chance generic affixes will be powerful enough to make you swap a synergistic piece out for a "0.2% more damage on fridays" type of thing. Addiction over fun means they need you to complete your build relatively early, otherwise the progression grinds down into frustration, and once you have most Aspects the only thing you're looking for is higher % (they removed D3 item sets just in name, you're effectively collecting sets of Aspects). Since there's no system to improve Aspects, it's all RNG, when you drop a perfect Aspect now you're likely going to be frustrated: use it and you'll inevitably drop an item with better affixes, wait for the perfect item and feel you're running a lame build. The new system will steer players towards collecting different sets of perfect Aspects and trying different builds once the current one gets boring, pushing the grind to peripheral stuff like slowly improving affixes % and leveling glyphs, which on their own have a small enough impact you won't feel the build is gimped. To me it's not enough to overcome the feeling of the D4 game being a Rupe Golberg-esque decoration around the PURCHASE button. It took me years to realise addiction isn't the same as fun, and the feeling of having been exploited isn't pleasant and doesn't go away.
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  198. Loved this cruelty squad 2 review
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  199. While I understand and even agree with most of the points in the video, I feel like the comparison between Mario 64 and Mario Odyssey is unfair. You point to the sound of moons filling into the Odyssey as being similar to the sound of a cash register, yet the sound of coins accumulating after you get a star and jump out of the painting in Mario 64 does the same thing. The reason why Odyssey feels like Disney is because the developers had the resources to populate the worlds in a way they couldn't in 64, both projects were going for a similar vibe. You describe Odyssey's story as obligatory when the exact same goes dor 64. You say 64 gives stars for complicated challenges while showing footage of the star you get for swimming around an empty enemy-less box looking for red coins. Be honest, is a field being fought over by warring tribes of bob-bomb so much better than a blitz out town of sentient hats? These petty complaints cloud the well thought out insight on Odyssey's core issues, and perhaps even damages your point that this is the direction thinfs have been going for a while.
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  200. I disagree on Hotline Miami being a perfect game. It has one huge issue in my opinion: WHY IS THERE NO TOILET IN JACKET'S BATHROOM!?
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  201. Great great review. Did not overstay, stated what could be only your view, but made a big statement about what you felt, without being dishonest
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  202. You have very quickly in the span of a year and a half or so become one of my favourite people making content on this platform, and your videos seemingly just keep getting better and better. Thank you for your continued work and I will always be looking forward to your next video. Also, given what you stated in the bullet hell section, do we finally have reason to believe that Touhou is indeed the peak of video games?
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  203. I quite like the ending to this video. I'm surprised at just how many games you showed there too - I've always known myself not to keep up with games that much, but I knew of 0 of those and if I had to compile a list of my own I'd struggle to come up with 3 releases I'm looking forward to, no matter how obscure. Perhaps I should check some of those out sometime, although the itch palestine bundle (and the inspiration to make a game after playing ZeroRanger) will keep me occupied for a while. Also, I'd recommend showing song names on-screen when they play. Listing them all is good, but it's quite difficult for somebody to find something they're looking for if they have to manually count how many tracks played, or try to find a song they're familiar with to use as a reference point. There may well be a reason you refrain from doing this, but seeing as how you show other sources on-screen it seems like it'd be totally fine to me o,o
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  204. In context of me being an avid PoE player that did not play Diablo much (for a variety of reasons), it's interesting to see which PoE mechanics are inherited from D2 and how they changed over time. An example would be atlas bases, where specific items could only drop from specific maps, which then became specific regions (while they were a thing) and now there's no more map lock, with focus changing to league mechanics having unique to that mechanic rewards. Crafting is also becoming less random over time, despite some of the best crafting ways still being "lock 1 affix" (essences, fracturing orb).
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  205. the prevalence of gambling and other randomised, skinnerian design has really soured me off games-both new releases and a lot of the stuff i used to play. I'll admit, a lot of your coverage of slots just made me say "no shit", but the machine zone stuff was interesting, and put to words the general antipathy i had about gambling features and contemporary game design really well. the general purpose of both slots and games being to hypnotise their audience
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  206. Genuinely the most useful video I've seen on the topic as someone who's worked in developing GANs in the past.
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  207. This video and the game are criminally underrated
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  208. I guess it's a blessing that I'm never in a position where I'm comfortable enough to just casually lose money in a gambling scenario so these things never attracted me beyond "ooh shiny lights and cool cash register sounds".
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  209. Please keep doing what you're doing.
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  210. usually dont comment on stuff, but i really appreciate ur videos theyre always well written and very well presented thanku for putting into words the icky feeling so much ai stuff gives me
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  211. My God you make good stuff man. Take all the time in the world to make these videos, the amount of effort is staggering.
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  212. The fact I joined three minutes after this was posted and only one other person had commented and the video had six views shows just how underrated this fantastic channel is. Keep it up!
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  213. 15:00 Writers/developers being gaslit into working for tips just isn’t it either. Not everyone wants to be an influencer with extra steps. Even Placensia’s People of Paper (whose author contract famously forbade the publisher a digital iteration) are already in multiple lending archives.
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  214. 43:13 They're trying to live forever because they're afraid of the punishment that'll come when they're dead.
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  215. My personal feelings on AI are very complicated. I share all the concerns and frustrations that everyone else has, but I also don't believe the genie is ever going back in the bottle on this one. So amidst advocating for tighter legislation on the uses of AI, I will also leverage its raw computing power in ways I personally find ethical. I am an independent writer and artist with no professional qualifications with which to get an industry job, and no budget with which to hire industry professionals, so if I want to get my creative projects off the ground, I will be spending my whole life toiling over them. I elect to use AI to ease that burden, with the knowledge that I have no intention of handing over my artistic autonomy, and that if I ever find financial success, the first thing I will do is hire human professionals. Nothing the AI creates makes it into my final product, because I would be ashamed to put my name on anything as low quality as what an AI can come up with. I simply use it for structure and guidance when my productivity grinds to a halt.
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  216. Incredible video! The production value is off the charts. I can't wait to see the next parts in the series! (Also, your use of Google Maps kinda reminds me of Jon Bois' 17776, haha)
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  217. a good day when jimmy uploads
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  218. Dark Balls
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  219. For literally no reason seeing the slugcat move around so fast when it's sped up makes me laugh 💀
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  220. 21:50 or so onwards is probably the most beautiful, moving thing I've ever seen in a game review. Almost spiritual
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  221. This game's development was wonderful to watch up until its release. I didn't play it then, but I've been meaning to at some point, so seeing you cover it only solidifies that it's absolutely got enough going on to warrant a purchase down the line. Excellent video as always, keep up the amazing work! Looking forward to P2W part 3!!
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  222. haha i remember years ago tellin my buddy how every commit you make to github is just training data for microsoft when the buy out happened. Now he's working at microsoft
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  223. the muted clips of Leonhart's videos did NOT prepare me for how loud he actually is lmao
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  224. Really enjoy your guided tour series, found a lot of neat gems this way. Thank you and good job!
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  225. Jimmy my boy these videos are simply incredible, you always manage to explain it all in such a way that makes me disgusted in a primal sort of way by the way these industries are optimized to manipulate, capture and wring dry anyone who comes into contact with them. I could say you've managed the same with me, I wouldn't be surprised if I've watched nearly all your videos like 4 times already but that's an addiction I'm willing to overlook, keep makin' em and I'll keep watchin' em.
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  226. Political project first plz
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  227. I don't play Diablo 4, but to me, it was shocking to hear that there was such little viable build variety between classes. If they want you to play a new character every season, I would think that each class should have enough variation within itself to warrant coming back excitedly each season to, effectively, play the same class a new way. "Oh man that build is so cool I will have to try that next season as a way to experience it from lvl 1 to max!" But if leveling is the same, if the class boils down to having minimal viable builds, and if no other class is interesting to me... Why would I come back? It makes no sense to their business model, I have no reason to come back if it's going to feel the same every run, outside swapping classes, if there is no power spike, each run is going to be the same as last season. It seems the kind of thing you do once, finish, leave and wait for an update before returning because unless they change something to the class, there is no reason to do it all again.
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  228. I've been thinking about positive vs negative motivation (similar to criticism motivated by love/hate) and how it affects the things we make I think if you try to make things with negative motivation you tend towards iterative improvements on existing things (trying to eliminate their bad qualities), while positive motivation tends towards trying to create something new You can see why positive motivations can work better when making art, but I'm not willing to blanket dismiss negative motivation as bad, some of the best games come from taking a great game that already exists and trying to iteratively improve on it And, thanks for that optimistic bit at the end, I think I really needed that <3
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  229. what a good critique of AI technologies i will comment on it to improve its standing in the eyes of an AI
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  230. The guitar instrumental you used to transition from chapter 5 to 6 was so sobering already knowing what happens next, like seeing everything come out of Pandora's box firsthand, knowing what it means for everyone, and not being able to do anything but watch. Fantastic work.
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  231. Its rediculous how much depth you have in getting what is actually happening. Fkn love the videos.
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  232. Thank you for keeping the review so well informed but also keeping many of the games "secrets" and nuances up to the watcher when they decide to pick up the game, there are so many areas in rainworld with so much depth it would be a shame to spoil them for a player when they can experience it. Keep up the amazing reviews.
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  233. lmaooo: "this isnt super important to the video but i found the most unhinged game review of all time." A lot of people are talking about how insightful and well structured these videos are, which is absolutely true, but i wanted to shout out how funny yr writing and editing can be. The extremely deadpan humor and stuff like the flowchart of company acquisitions remind me so much of jon bois. also your music choices and the flow of the video editing really create a really unique vibe, the passage of cut together news reports on arcades w/o commentary is especially great.
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  234. Big fan of that Jimmy Mcgee guy
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  235. Bought the game because of first non-spoiler section of video. Now it's finished and I came back to see the rest. Amazing stuff, thank you. It's refreshing to hear magician speak about games.
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  236. I came back to this video just to leave a comment. This essay is... it left me speechless. I dreamed of making a vudoe like this, that dissects this entire topic, but I had no experience. This video surpasses anything that I would have thought of analyzing. You managed to talk about every moral dillema and gave a detailed picture of how downwards spiral that insudtry is. The amount of research that you must have done is unmanageable. Sincerely thank you. And anyone looking through the comments before fully watching it, even those who are normally pro ai, while it is depressing, it is worth while.
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  237. I'm in a somewhat similar brainspace to you, but microtransactions and gambling addictions and the mechanics behind them drive me on to try and understand them with a morbid fascination because I'm extremely susceptible to them. Autistic, suffering from ADHD, I'm the exact kind of mentally ill that these techniques are laser targeted to prey on. And even when I work to understand them on every level, I have sometimes still found myself succumbing to them. Anyway, I'm glad to see someone push back against these practices from the "other" side of that, so to speak - someone who recognizes that they're evil not just because they're personally affected by them, but because they are just plain evil, no two ways about it. Great video, very cathartic to watch.
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  238. you consistently make some of the best videos on the platform, keep it up!
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  239. The second about drm and needing a physical manual to access the game. I remember on the original xwing you needed to decode some star wars letters using the manual. Well, I was 7 and fucking stupid and even running games through dos was a bit much for me at that point. Once I finally got the game to run, if I couldn't find the manual, I just couldn't play that day. Twice, I couldn't play because the pages I needed had been ripped out by our dog. Good times
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  240. You know, I never really thought about how Diablo 2 has no "end-game." Sure, you have to go through it three times, but the final boss is the final challenge. No endless dungeons full of endless demons of endless difficulty dropping endless level loot. I would grind multiplayer Baal raids for better gear (and run a Pindleskin Bot if we're being honest) but the game never asked me to do that. Despite my history with Diablo I never played Diablo 4. I will no longer buy a full priced game with microtransactions. What Blizzard used to charge us for Lord of Destruction or The Frozen Throne is now just a month of pantoloon cosmetics. A lot of mobile games try to hook you in with something cool. But 3 days into it you find you're basically running the same management game with a lot of monetisation inputs, while the game itself is auto-play - either literally or figuratively. It sounds like Diablo 4 just strings you along for a bit longer.
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  241. I really like how you make the point a couple times that you become very familiar with and endeared to the world and that's what gives Saint its impact. When I went to Silent Construct, there's obviously the moment when you first find Pebbles, but after that for me there was going down what was left of the wall, and for me that was the real thing. At this point you've gone up and down the wall about a billon times, it's ALWAYS there. This time half of it is just kinda hanging out in space, unrecognizable, the area containing the shelter near the top is bloated and blackened. It was a real Ozymandias moment for me. I don't think I'd had a more potent moment of reflection on mortality since the first one when I was a kid. It was probably the deepest a piece of art has ever touched me, in fact.
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  242. I've watched this and your original Rain World video in full. You provide such concise explanations of things that I spend ages ruminating on and provide sources and context when I'm mostly working off intuition. Blown away by your insight and presentation. Also I cracked up when the Fassad happy box music came on during that speech, hilarious because of the content and relevant because the publishing status of the game itself.
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  243. A really really well made video, your original video was one of the biggest reasons I got the game, even buying a new pc so I could play it since I didn't have a playstation back in 2020. As someone who has put hundreds of hours into the game speedrunning, doing custom challenges, and being a lore scavanger mostly; I would like to give my thoughts and perspective on downpour I agree with a lot of the points made in the video. If there is one thing I would say that makes downpour detract in it's emotional power and original direction, besides some very exceptional moments... is that Downpour is too gamer. It feels too much like I'm playing a game and not an incredible emotional and spiritual journey. I played Rain World originally with everything spoiled and yet every single part of the journey had me fully immersed and left me with chills reaching Five Pebbles and the entire depths sequence. It was a truly cathartic release from all the pain and suffering of the brutal world. And yet, I was drawn back into that world to understand the ecosystem. To learn everything about it. The delicate balance of the ecosystem feels off now with creature spam and creatures that felt placed where they didn't belong. As much as Saint's world was terrific, I wish the lands were more barren and kept with the vanilla game timeline of the apex creatures like red lizards and red centipedes and king vultures to just disappear over time. The directional vision of Downpour felt just a little bit off from the vanilla experienced, but that's to be expected of community modders turned into official game devs. It feels like slugcats are the center of this universe and everything revolves around them as their super powered abilities just shatter the naturalist feel of the original despite being in an almost entirely industrial world as we are causes, or a least directly present, for a lot of massive events. The slugcats feel too intelligent at times, even if purposed organisms; beings that really just feel like they are the iterators' favorite pets. As nice as it is to see the iterator and ancients story arc throughout time, the mystery I feel was more powerful than seeing it laid before us. I'd rather downpour exploring new lands and being terrified but enthralled by new horrors and wonders. There's a lot of lore added that feels too goofy at times, like how two iterators create a creature battle royale arena to pass the time, that makes the tone of the game and experience more childish than it was originally and tonal issues like that in the rest of the dialogue made some story moments not hit as hard. The aforementioned intelligence made the line "always the same blank expression" said by Five Pebbles to Rivulet, not really hit for me. As a whole Downpour is great, sometimes surpassing the original Rain World, and extremely worth it and a fair number of my criticisms, both mentioned and unmentioned can be left up to "knowing too much". With that being said, there is a lot more I haven't touched as well as my regretful thoughts about how a lot of the new players to Rain World not having the time to really think through the original experience before going straight into the tonal difference of downpour. Anyways, that's a bunch of random thoughts for now and will probably be edited in the future or I will elaborate further in replies.
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  244. Beautiful video. I wanted to explore the rest of Cruelty Squad after beating the last "regular level" but I was kind of discouraged since I lost my save and had to start all over. Seeing you cover the rest of the content in such an entertaining and informative way, has definitely inspired me to pick up the game in the near-future and give it a more thorough go.
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  245. Your videos are absolutely refreshing and sorely needed in a time where the only discourse we have for video games on YT are twenty-hour-long ramble-thons that basically just read through wikipedia and recite the plot beats moment by moment. Thank you so fucking much.
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  246. Honestly my favorite video of yours thus far, really loved it. Please keep up the good work.
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  247. Finally, a person whose word I trust to be well thought out and researched a reasonable amount on this topic. As just an amateur photographer, even I can say that the comparison between AI stuff and photography is delusional if sincere and par for the course if disingenuous because a photograph is a piece of art created solely through the perception of the photographer and a simple machine, rather than a “thinking machine”, they alone operate; only the photographer’s eye perceives “the shot”; the photographer’s mind is where the idea that this particular view from this particular angle of this particular thing/group of things/person/group of people is aesthetically pleasing or conveys a desired mood/point/feeling/train of thought is from. The camera is the simple, unthinking machine that renders physical/digital copies of that original vision, it does inform how the vision is rendered but it does not make any decisions the photographer themselves does not make. Even leaving “auto” mode on DSLRs for focus and whatnot is a choice the photographer makes as they don’t necessarily trust their own ability to focus for a particular shot so they use the machine to enhance their own ability. Thinking machines need preexisting images or nothing exists. So basically we should do the Butlerian Jihad to this field of tech and turn Silicon Valley into a nuclear test site.
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  248. I still can't believe how criminally underrated your channel is. Keep up the good work.
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  249. Just rewatched this and wanted to let you know how much i like your tour and your whole approach. It's perfect for revisiting the game. It represents the whole vibe of the game really well. After playing through rain world several times always over the course of months or at least weeks it is so nice to see all the different places at once and thinking about the paths i took. I am a fan of the path recommended by iggy so i was a bit anxious when you went through the drainage system in the beginning haha. It was a great decision to include industrial complex using the video by your friend! Thank you for your work and your insights. Enjoyed it several times already ❤️
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  250. I get "why" Diablo 4's UX/UI is like a mobile game. I just don't understand "why". Like, isn't having a super gritty realistic cutscene juxtaposed with battle passes and rewards and BUY NOW just the ultimate failure in thematics? Like the cutscene is what I expect for buying the game, only for them to pull the rug out from under me. It feels cheap.
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  251. "I took it to get a head start on this video" releases the video in march.
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  252. I've been binging your videos since I discovered them the last couple of days. Insightful and engrossing and marvelous
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  253. This is fantastic. I am blown away by your editing, research, writing -- overall arcs, info presentation, plus line-to-line sharp observations or well referenced jokes --- just everything is done so well. Looking forward to more.
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  254. Another great video from your channel as usual but you missed the single best race horse name in your list, which is of course, "Hoof Hearted"
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  255. I love the rhythm of your videos, cutting your voiceover with stretches of video without dialogue gives me time to mull over what you've been saying. It's a contemplative kind of vibe. Great editing all around!
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  256. Words alone cannot describe the depth of my appreciation for this profound, insightful deep dive into RainWorld and your thoughts on it. When this video was uploaded, I was still finishing up a few loose ends in the game. This video felt like an excellent reward for a job well done.
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  257. 1:04:48 better not watch a playthrough but play it yourself,deer suck
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  258. Loved your channel ever since the AI one. Your narration and wording is enjoyable and it was cool to see you talk about one of my favorite games of the computer lab at school. Happy new year.
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  259. Excellent editorial as always McGee I got three thoughts for ya: 1) I initially felt that the manually healing issue was overstated, but seeing it in action, and you driving the point home by brilliantly stuttering while talking about it had me fully understand the problem. Simply great 2) I do wonder if you have an axe to grind against "quirky wholesome indie games", based on some comments from here, the Rainworld DLC video and neocities notes. Maybe it's more an issue of a game kneecapping it's interesting, potentially well-developed setting to look at the player and go "look at how quirky and wholesome I am, or this moment is". I do share some similar sentiments, as I'm not a huge fan of that myself. Let me not take words out of your mouth though; if you ever wanted to talk about that aspect further in future videos, I'd be interested to hear your take on it 3) I did peep the neocities notes and saw some pre-video stuff (fortnite and vbucks) for the eventual P2W Three video. Just letting know that I eagerly await it, and will be patient for whenever it drops Thanks again, and cheers!
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  260. youre back!!
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  261. Soda!!!!!! 🥹🥹🥹😍😍😍
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  262. Thanks for putting into words what I like about the soul lineage (the exploration and the lived world), which seemed to get a bit lost in the modern iterations. Especially boss design being laser focused on difficulty and certain type of two phase power scaling making it a bit too homogeneous. Hopefully as you said from has to change something and I cant wait to see what their next fantasy installment will being about
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  263. 1:10:59 got me good
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  264. I just know this will be a banger video to watch on a 3 hour road trip
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  265. Just watching your playthroughs again brought back those same strong emotions from mine. Even with all the reasonable criticisms you've given, Downpour is still an experience I don't think I'll ever forget. I can't remember a second I wasn't having fun during everything and all the questions running through my head. And the Saint's playthrough was just unspeakably powerful to me. I love your stuff dude, keep it up!
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  266. Spent my Christmas with my friends and family as the richest man in the world spent his arguing with people on twitter. Feels good man. Hope you spent yours with good folk!
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  267. I feel so vindicated by most of your points here lol, both criticisms and praise. I found a good portion of the bosses pretty tedious and just created a really broken build to not have to engage too hard (you're right about Scadutree Avatar though, awesome boss that feels more experiential like some of the older fromsoft bosses). I think Nioh kinda ruined what appeal souls combat had for me, but that's not too bad, because I still love the exploration. Also I lost it when you put in the God Hand camera example because thats literally the thing I bring up every time when talking about souls game combat issues, devs need to get comfortable with the idea of just culling everything between the player and camera imo, no more disorienting boss fights. On level design stuff I'm very happy you mentioned how good shadow keep is because I think it's just a staggeringly good piece of level design. Great video as usual 👍
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  268. Jimmy ur content is so good I stg ur gonna blow up soon and I am glad to be here for it
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  269. The video was amazing and it opened my eyes. Was watching it while leveling in the season 4 of diablo 4 and you actually made me stop running on the treadmill for a second to think about my decision.
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  270. Great video. Something I wonder if you ran into but is a great underlining of your thesis; if you play the campaign of d4 the way I played the campaign of d2 - slowly, exploring every nook and cranny, taking your time - you will hit level 50 before the end of act 2. I did this on release. And then guess what happens? Those scaling monsters? They stop scaling. You unlock the paragon system... but you can't get the glyphs that drop. Monsters are locked at level 50. How do you carry on with the systems intact? You speedrun the main story. I, rather like you, was surprised by just how good d4's grasp of the tone and vibe was. I was really enjoying it. And then I was reminded that even on my first playthrough this wasn't built for people who were actually interested in playing the game; it was for people who wanted a greased slide into the open maw of "the endgame", as they push buttons in identikit dungeons until ennui sets in. And that made me truly sad.
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  271. jimmy i fucking love you these videos are immaculate and incredible you do your research and write a compelling case please never stop
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  272. I was reading through some of the comments and one of them started with "I disagree! With almost everything..." and the one immediately after that started with "big agree with with a lot of what you said", and I just thought that was both absolutely hilarious and really indicative of what Downpour can mean.
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  273. the last chapter went so fucking hard. holy shit. keep up the good work.
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  274. Your writing in the closing statement is incredibly powerful.
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  275. Love your stuff man, can't wait to watch this one. Hope you keep making stuff for a long time.
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  276. Jimmy, you are really going to go far with your content! Keep up the good work sir, I'm here for it.
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  277. Incredibly underrated channel. It's almost criminal
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  278. YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH BABEY JIMMY MCGEE ON SHMUPS
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  279. peenus INNternete
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  280. Brilliant use of CRT footage, and transitioning between it and gameplay. Loved it!
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  281. And in addition- it requires looking closely for ekhm "normies" for longer to notice. Artists and creatives see these problems practically imediately, hell I personally tend to call out the generated bullshit on chats and I approciate peiple who wrote proper explanation how to notice generated inages- fucky lineart, a lot of indiscriminate blur, nonsense patterns and overdetailing, colours bleeding outside of established borders. The tech mostly shows how rotten society right now is. Companies wang obedient slaves and cut corners thinking it will give them more money than they put in- which it will not, low effort gives you low results
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  282. This is one of the best videos I’ve seen in a while, great work Jim! 👍
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  283.  @JimmyMcG33  Puzzle games are only mechanics and expanding said mechanics, so in a way they are the truest kind of game for me (sry if that sounded pretentious). Baba is you is amazing and the perfect introduction to the puzzle world, it was my first puzzle game. It is very challenging but offers a great experience for seasoned and new players. It expertly combines its own design language while still teaching newcomers the silent rules of Sokoban. Before baba, I had no interest in puzzlers, but it really sucked me in. Stephen's sausage roll is a sort of quintessential puzzle game and a kinda final boss for players. The Witness is also very great, but controversial for it's design philosophies. I could list so many, but this comment is already way too long. I think of the 3 aforementioned games at least one will really stick with you. I'm super passionate about puzzle games and think that it shares elements with every other genre, so I hope you enjoy Baba, and keep making great content!
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  284. slop, gloop, sludge, slurry, slush, grunge, and juice.
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  285. Fantastic video as always. Educational, informative, and incredibly biting commentary. Thank you for the feature length piece of quality content Jimmy.
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  286. This is a fantastic high level summary of the genre. I think TGM3 and Effect are also my favorite titles - they feel nice to play, even if their previews and hold don't force the player to stack as perfectly as something like TGM1 or NES.
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  287. I was fully immersed throughout the whole duration, excellent video!
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  288. You made an excellent analysis and critique. You thoroughly discussed the gameplay decisions that I clearly struggled with when the game came out either knowingly or subconsciously, and weaved those criticisms into a discussion of how the gameplay and narrative elements don't work holistically as they may have done with the original. I wish I could say that much of my confusion with what the developers were trying to convey is because of this dissonance but I think I may largely just be a part of that particular group the Wiki editor was bemoaning. I'll just have to enjoy a literary analysis vicariously through Youtube. I believe the closing words were an incredibly tight synopsis of the previous 115 minutes that could only come from a very compassionate study and experience with the two games that helped me view them differently in retrospect. This closing segment also had the best song in the video.
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  289. For thousands of years, humanity has been progressing at slow pace on both fields of technology and society, which has allowed for long periods of static economic and power hierarchies. Some could even say that this is part of our DNA due to how long it could be traced back. However, these last three centuries have broken the norm with faster and faster technology discovery and development, making apparent that society ruling, morals and everything that composes the masses lack the speed to addapt to the new technologies. When a worker can be substituted by a machine that works faster at lower cost, the company doesn't think twice to execute the change since the world we live in is a capitalistic competition of "who makes more money?". Don't get me wrong, we should change workers by machines due to increased efficience and that's what tecnology is for, to allow everyone lifes to be easier and better. But then, what happens when the technology not only can replace the worker, but also the company? They make the rules to defend their power and to maintain the status quo, change the narrative to control the masses, and who knows to what extend some may go (conflict, wars, nothing good). On the same line, workers can unionize to defend their position, since the individual also lives in competition to survive but at the end, technology breaks through no matter what. Whether it may be worker or company, technology seem to prevail and continue to strive not matter how slow society addapts. But, why does society go so slow compared to technology? Easy answer, technology only needs one person to discover or invent something, others will steal, learn, replicate, and there you have rapid expansion, thanks in part due to the competitive nature of society. Society in contrast, masses are slow in learning and are easily manipulated by those that are in the top of society, be it governments or companies due to their long reach. All these patches in form of legislation and continuous confrontation against that 0.01% in power is costly game, making evident that a change on society foundations is on due. Competitive capitalism brings greatness if power increase is limited to those most rich, otherwise situations like this one with copyright will repeat again and again, and that's the next thing we need to find a solution to. Guarantee that the best outcome can be achieved over those in power and without stepping on those in need. Sorry for the thesis. Videos like these always set me to think too much and always thought in sharing it if anyone finds it compelling. Hope the best for the archive sector but those against it will never stop. It is in their nature, as it is in ours.
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  290. Rain World will be the first game I introduce to my future child.
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  291. Two things. One, EXTREMELY based of you to call Zelda 2 the first soulslike. Two, good god I feel miserable after watching these. Miserable in an Apocalypse Now way though, not in an 'ate a pound of sugar-free gummy bears' kind of way.
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  292. JIMMY MCGEE
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  293. Really enjoyed the more optimistic take towards the end. I really can't think of much good art that was born out of spite or malice, even some of the most popular parody media is made out of understanding and love for the source material. For every YouTube video saying "x MUST be stopped" I think a way better point is "How x could be better". If a negative review is about how a piece of media fails to deliver in an original aspect of itself, it shouldn't mean that idea is poison, just possibly premature. I was never a fan of shmups, but I'd be lying if I said the moment the train level began to pick up I didn't feel a rush of excitement. Also: Did you ever get around to trying Baba Is You?
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  294. hell yeah man a long time in the making congrats
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  295. It's very funny to me* that otaku in Japan are getting skinner boxed by Uma Musume into gambling on real horse races. *It makes me very depressed to think about this
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  296. Great to see you do a piece on shmups. I've long bemoaned how underrated of a genre it is, and nowadays pretty much no one talks about them, despite them being so interesting. I must take this opportunity to peddle my Hellsinker propaganda. If you've never played it, I urge you to give it a shot. I've had a decade+ obsession with it, and I wish more people would experience it. It's now on steam and with new tutorials, making it easier to get into. ps: If you enjoyed the grazing mechanics in Graze Counter and haven't tried Touhou 16 specifically, give it a shot. The unique mechanic there is specifically about that, and one of my favs in the whole series.
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  297. Your coverage of this game is genuinely interesting. Always love your videos but this one really impressed me with how many meaningful things you had to say about one of gaming's biggest hits. Its place in history I think makes people overlook it, in a way that's kind of unfair. It's lovely to see someone truly appreciate the work put into it's design. Thanks for the video, hope you've had a great holiday season!
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  298. Excellent work again. It's nice to revisit this topic in depth after some of the other reviews I've seen only ever touch on one or two points. Looking forward to your next topic.
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  299. HI JIMMY
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  300. I may be stupid and missing it but do you cite the music anywhere? edit: i missed where it was posted in the notepad at the end since I was looking at the link in the post above. Thanks Jimmy!
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  301. Would love to see you critique gacha games at some point. I know there it would probably be a lot of the same stuff said here, but it’s interesting to know of certain games like genshin and cookie run. The latter of which I think would be fascinating for a video since the gacha component is secondary to a skill based game, at least from my perspective, which is an interesting phenomenon for a gacha game to have.
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  302. I look forward to future episodes, it'll be fun when eventually you'll have to talk about FOMO, microtransactions, dlc, powercreep and such, kinda like a big sequel to your Cr*pto games video It'll also be really funny when you (maybe) get to Gatchapons and Gacha games
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  303. You all ways put so much work into your videos and each one is absolutely amazing keep up the good work.
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  304. The game really starts out seeming like it’s going somewhere and something cool is gonna happen, and then when you’ve invested too much time you realize it’s just getting to be more of a slog with each level
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  305. I need to ask you to stop putting out videos that consistently make me think "This is the best video I've ever seen". I'm starting to sound like a broken record and I'm getting self-conscious.
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  306. I'm watching all your shit. This is basically another Civvie channel I can consume well made content from. Keep up and you might beat him to 1 million subs LOL. Low key no joke. Need more from you, thanks.
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  307. another proletarian classic
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  308. You are my favorite content creator on this site, and every time you post a video I have another reason. So cool how you've traced back the origin of games to exactly the kinds of morally ambiguous behavior/exploitation that we're seeing in the AAA space today. If nothing else, it's a return to form. Cannot wait for part 3!
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  309. dude the mpv interface popping up at 28:06 caught me so off guard as I was watching this video in mpv myself, lmfao
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  310. Hey I watch David Lynch's daily weather report too! Also his number of the day.
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  311. Great video, one of my fav subs on YT. Not sure if you've ventured into Warcraft 3 custom games much? but I'd love an essay on the deep world of custom games in wc3.
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  312. 21:25 Every lasagna I make is a “lasagna of tension”. Nobody comes to my place for dinner anymore.
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  313. 17:28 Good to see Adam Curtis clip used here. Anyone with a brain should seek out his work and study it - all of it - and some of the fog will clear.
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  314. Thank you so much for this work. These industry practices and their deep history are why I quit esports to get into game dev and hopefully provide better approaches. Your research of connection between original arcade machine makers and horse betting tech manufacturers is so wonderful.
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  315. Hey Jimmy. Coming back to this video with thoughts on Skinner Box games. You might want to look into Warhammer 40K: Darktide. The current state of its shop systems really seem to resemble and fulfill all three conditions for a Skinner Box. I don't know if you'd really have the time, passion, or desire to do so, but it might be worthwhile. Whatever you take from this, just keep doing what you're doing - it's influential and incredibly thought-provoking work. Thanks for making it.
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  316. fucking Gog and Magog from Space Jam Revelations got me so good
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  317. Can already tell this ones gonna be interesting, always a highlight of my day to see you've uploaded. Also, just wondering, have you played Space Funeral? It's one of my favorites, and I feel like you would appreciate it, as well as other thecatamites games
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  318. I got very, very good at Tetris DS. I could stay in a machine state for a long time and just play endless mode without breaking a sweat. However, when I tried out the Grand Master series, the Tetris Freak's game of choice for solo competition, it kicked my ass. Just had a different feel that felt more stiff initially. Even so, I think Tetris is an example of a very pure video game that will probably outlast us and be played by the next species that inherits this blue marble. Great video.
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  319. You put into words something I felt but couldn't put my finger on about Mario Odyssey the entire time I played it. I bought it so I felt like I should finish the game, but it was so unfulfilling. I remember unsuccessfully trying to beat Mario 2 much more vividly than I recall actually completing Odyssey.
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  320. 1:02:02 Unironically based, clip this entire audience-addressing section
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  321. im writing this comment as an offering to THE ALGORITHM in hopes it will help it take off :))
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  322. this video was incredibly good and im so happy someone finally said this in such a well formulated video!
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  323. Wow, you're spoiling us with videos.
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  324. winning
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  325. incredible video, thank you for this. the ending was actually really beautiful.
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  326. your content is so peak bless you jimmy this has made my day better
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  327. so excited for this. hope you are well!
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  328.  @JimmyMcG33  can’t wait to see it. I would like to know if gacha games can be fair and “addictions by design”, which I imagine they are but the social element of it must also be a contributing factor. Not mentioning the effect of a gacha element combined with a progressive numbers go up system.
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  329. Not nearly finished watching, but I'm very happy to see someone dunk on Gourmand. Personally, I really appreciate him from a lore standpoint but his gameplay is just so strange and was less enjoyable to me than the more mobile slugcats. It kind of feels like they just started tacking on new skills and abilities on him to counterbalance the massively annoying downside of getting tired by just jumping around. Meanwhile, I don't actually mind tiredness from a spear throw, it's a different style of combat and the fact that he can end fights the instant they start (if his opponent isn't tanky, at least) is very endearing, while messing up means you are now at a disadvantage instead. Crushing anything to death is hilarious. I did it by accident with a scavenger right at the beginning of the playthrough which is maybe the worst possible way to learn of that ability, but damn if I didn't laugh my ass off. I didn't like his food quest much when I saw food items that were new to downpour and therefore had no idea where to go. Overall I think if they removed or at least lessened tiredness gain from moving and jumping around he would be a much more fun character to play for me. Also big agree on the criticism of all the invisible walls that you can reach with higher mobility characters. It's so pervasive that it's actually kind of maddening, a lot of these boundaries are not difficult to reach at all, and thus genuinely seem like a new way to go until you're proven wrong by the game itself. I love this game and I love this DLC but what would have made it perfect for me would have been a big series of subsequent areas on the left of the outskirts, maybe running parallel and past farm arrays and subterranean, that leads to somewhere important, like NSH or SRS (Imagine making the entire journey back to SRS as spearmaster in at least 2 new zones exclusive to them. Now that would be something grand) The new additions world-wise are still awesome but I had different dreams. Oh well. Maybe will add more thoughts as I finish watching
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  330. ok here is a long paragraph so be ready. gambling is very .... popular as a "fun" activity here where i live in indonesia. i mean i myself are also a gambler as i play gacha games. the games that i was playing are arknights and before that there are other gacha games i have played. now unlike other gacha games i played arknights are the only one i pay for monthly cards which basically lets you get gacha currency and few items because i thought that it was a fair gacha game compared to many other. every time i recruit a unit which is same as opening a card pack i know what its always the same 3 star character that i ... well not hate but rather others because their dialogue is too long and i press the screen, prompting them to go faster. but when i get a better unit when i least expect it i got a little bit happy but it happen to many times i got bored with 4 stars. the real ecstasy is when the 6 stars tag shows up. see before you "open the card pack" there are 5 tags which if used with the arknights calculator website tells you which operator you will get. the most wanted are "top operator" tag which are differentiated by the yellow background unlike other tags that has no background. the sound, the pull and the visual id different. i mean there are videos on youtube teaching you how to tell the difference between ordinary and extraordinary pulls. despite that i really did not think of paying for monthly card because my units are strong enough. then the games release a powerful character, downright broken even and i though that if i can pull her i won't have to pull another so i can save to pull another broken unit or operator. after watching your video and looking at what i see, yeah gambling is everywhere yet very .... hidden. most people i know that gamble would just use a bit money because they are gambling responsibly. i mean at arcades there are, well not slot machines but basically a gambling machines i think. so basically you use coins as a bullet and there are enemies on the screen. you would get coins based on enemies killed. when the pumpkin boss shows up its announced and everyone try to kill it. they try to come with strategy to steal kill kinda like when you steal kill in DOTA 2, waiting the opponent to kill the BBEG and steal it for yourself. and last week there is a new game that celebrate the pre-registration and it was massive, i am talking security guards constantly telling crowds to disperse because it disturbs the other people trying to walk through sea of humans. i mean i really wish i can go on but there are many things to talk about but i just want to say that yes, i do play arknights because it is fun and i am gonna say that it is a fair gacha game i mean gacha is gacha like that 1 time i pay a lot of money on a whim to buy lots of gacha currency because of this 1 unit called mountain and the fear that if i do not pull him i will never get him and so after that i always try to save even though i know in the end that you can use low rarity units to clear all stages including the hard ones, events etc. i just want to say that after watching the video i believe there will be a new addiction far worse than the current one, a worse or potent gambling machine the current one, i had this feeling that what you show me is barely scratching the surface and as time goes on there are new ways company can use this to profit a lot.
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  331. At 40:00 where you talk about democratization of art, it's not about the position of voting democratically or making things democratically motivated. The definition being used is democratization - the action of making something accessible to everyone. "the democratization of information through technology"
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  332. Incredibly well written and insightful video, thank you. As I watched your history of the game design elements that directly pulled from the psychological bag of tricks of slots and gambling I couldn’t help but realize that the entirely of 2022’s breakout hit (and my private addiction) Vampire Survivors essentially is a distillation of all these elements, albeit in a much more morally defendable way. P.S. I noticed your Patreon isn’t linked in your channel bio. Just a note.
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  333. Only you could bring fresh new insights about super mario bros of all things. Great Christmas present and great video. I'm glad I'm not the only one who dislikes the physics of the NSMB (and to a lesser extent wonder) games. They feel floaty, sluggish and imprecise, along with mediocre animations to match. Super mario world has always been the best balance of momentum, animation, gravity and precision. Also PLEASE FINISH THE VOID STRANGER VIDEO I DONT CARE IF IT'S PERFECT I WANNA HEAR YOUR THOUGHTS SO BADLY!!!
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  334. I really appreciate your videos man.
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  335. this review is one for the history books, i fw it
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  336. wow a video essay that actually makes you think and isnt bloated, thank you!
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  337. You held out a lot longer than I did. I recently took a Necromancer through the story and could not see myself playing any more than that. (And then I sunk another 100 hours into PoE.)
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  338. When the world needed him most, He appeared! I miss your content, Welcome Back! :D
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  339. the use of the moools song is really nice. outside of that, wrt the video youve articulated my thoughts on something better than i could yet again. incredible. thanks for the ending section too
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  340. 22:12 >"Raiden, take heed and bear witness to the truth that lie herein." Brilliant, mate. Probably woke up my poor neighbors by laughing too loud on my patio with that one.
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  341. I watched this while installing diablo 4 then just deleted it, thanks !
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  342. I was always scared to pay Diablo bc it seemed to me like a hardcore strategy game but I finally booted up Diablo 4 about a week ago I’m currently level 31 without a single death mindlessly clicking the same attack button the entire time the progression is slightly satisfying but it almost just feels like cookie clicker :/
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  343. Babe wake up, it's Jimmy time again!
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  344. I think I re-watched your slot machine video like 10 times Your videos are amazing
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  345. It was a pretty shit day, but Jimmy be posting.
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  346. I love this game. Took me an even 24 hours of playing to beat the thing. Dying always felt fair, it was always my fault. The game is hard, sure, but not cheap. The right kind of challenge to sink your teeth into. Could not recommend enough. I love how you mention the map peeking to extend sight, I honestly just straight up never did that. But now that I know, I’ll probably be tempted.
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  347. the whole video was great but that final section was straight heat, THANK YOU for verbalising that weird 'malaise' they would make me feel. Do you have any channel recommendations of people who actually like art? there are a few channels out there but they're few and far between. I found matthewmatosis because of you, so thanks :) I need to check out zero ranger now lol
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  348. Also the william s burroughs audio over the slot machine youtubers is v good
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  349. This video honestly gave me that feeling of joy of winning at slots and the power to walk away at the end.
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  350. I love this video. The discourse around Elden Ring and Shadow of the Erdtree has become so poisoned by complaining that well-reasoned and calm discussion has become depressingly rare. As always, your analysis helps me appreciate nuances I had never noticed or thought about, and puts structure to thoughts I previously struggled to articulate. Thank you. I do think it's a shame From has seemingly deprioritized the more thematic aspects of Dark Souls in favor of refining their combat system. And I find myself agreeing with many of your complaints about said combat - overtuned tracking, unreactable 'snap' attacks, overlapping damage sources, overuse of hyperarmor, grabs, and everything about the camera. But despite how bad all of these things are, I haven't been frustrated by them since my first playthrough. Somehow, I've learned to live with them, and I think it's because I disagree on a very important point. From absolutely pumped up the boss difficulty for ER as part of an ongoing arms race with their players, but in my opinion, I don't think they sacrificed depth for it at all. In fact, I think Elden Ring's combat depth and expressiveness is leagues and leagues above any other Soulsborne game. Malenia, Maliketh, Mohg, and Morgott are so fun to fight that despite all the base game's flaws - despite its bloated open world and overtuned damage scaling - I still come back again and again to do new playthroughs and challenge runs. If anything, I think SOTE was a step down in complexity from the base game. Bosses are, on the whole, more straightforward, with less emphasis on positioning, less combo branching logic, and fewer interesting 'gimmicks' as a whole. (I consider Mohg's fire and Malenia's poise to be ER's greatest gimmicks, to be clear about what I mean.) Instead, SOTE's bosses seemed to lean even harder into spectacle than the base game, and made up for the lacking complexity with damage scaling, speed, and a sprinkling of bullshit attacks. (Metyr's pulsar and Radahn's cross attack are what I'd call truly BS.) The best bosses in the DLC, like Messmer, Bayle, Lion, and Rellana, are only really above average compared to those of the base game. All this to say, I agree with many people that SOTE was a bit of a letdown, but for totally different reasons. I could have forgiven its disappointing anticlimax, or its failure to meaningfully connect with the base game, or its clunky NPC quests, but unlike the base game, the bosses aren't quite rising to the task. Instead, I'll probably remember the DLC for its vistas, the legacy dungeons, and all the new weapons and spells. Yet From did such a good job with just those three things alone that I still think it's a stellar DLC; possibly the best I've ever played. A mixed bag, to be sure.
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  351. Insanely based at the end there. Fuck yes, another amazing video
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  352. Deadeye Deepfake mentioned, made my day
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  353. 14:18 This part I don’t quite understand. How is it not a 100% commission, don’t the devs get all the money because they’re selling the virtual thing?
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  354. Well made and written video as usual! You make some interesting observations that i do appreciate seeing and in general do find this to be an well put together critique. I do find myself disagreeing with a lot of things here though. I saw rivulet quite a different way, it feels like they are the most overt stand in for the player. They have no shown knowledge of moon, of pebbles, of anything and kinda just fall into the middle of things as you said. This makes it to me feel like the opposite of what you mention with gourmand and artificer, the player drives the story forward because they know of information and care for things and characters the rivulet has very little of a defined reason to care for, because they really aren't defined at all as a character in the story besides doing a fetch quest for the iterators to help with stuff. Spear's pearl quest didn't really strike me as interesting either, it felt more like a chore where the entire time one of your core abilities is taken away in favor of a fetch quest which i dont really like either. Both of these quests also struck me as a tad too gamey for my liking, constantly being asked to carry something around by the iterators. I generally found both riv and spear's campaigns a bit of a letdown because they completely abandon that animal headspace and instead feel specifically as means to show the player important lore bits. Gourmand and artificer may have some dissonance (good point is how both of them know things that you only get to learn much later) but it felt much more like the characters had their own motivations which could be inferred by the player based on their mechanics and helped me bring a lot closer to them than running errands for iterators as characters whose only purpose seems to be to help the iterators Do Stuff. Imo in the challenges there's generally much more specific goals with which the rng can sometimes screw you over in. Resetting isn't as big of a deal, but on some of them it felt much more boring since it's less dynamic, more repetetive and sometimes can really feel like you clear something barely trying or are completely unable to do one because of rng. Some are nice but some don't do well on this, quite a mixed bag. In the base game your goals are general and your area of play large and non linear. In challenges all of it is limited and rng becomes a much bigger factor. I pretty hardly disagree with saint's ecosystem working better if i understood the implication there correctly, some areas are still overrun by huge predators which arent present at surv's point in the timeline and i think there's a bit of a disconnect with creatures like red lizards and centipedes etc disappearing and then reappearing in what should be much worse conditions for them. Also rubicon felt like it completely missed the mark for me, the guardian locked rooms struck me as an incredibly gamey mechanic and completely took me out of the experience. I didn't feel like i was on the saint's pilgrimage, i felt like i was suddenly playing an arena shooter where entering a new screen suddenly locked me in and i have to kill everything to progress (technically only the guardians but still). The ascension mechanic stopped feeling like i'm freeing the creatures from their cycles, it feels like i'm just calling in an orbital strike on them so they stop being in my way and i can progress. It really frustrated me on my playthrough, not because it was incredibly difficult but because it felt like it undermined everything i found interesting about the campaign and rain world in general up to that point and just really killed my immersion at that moment.
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  355. Even If you start making videos about random wikipedia articles, rambling about whatever associations pop in your head without any direction or end goal, id watch that.
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  356. this man really just played cruelty squad and immediately after went on to bash capitalism
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  357. The best guy in the game keep it up
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  358. The RIP when citing Gamasutra felt way too real. Also great video but you forgot to cite how level 1-1 teaches pl
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  359. I disagree with the arbitrary gap drawn between photography and AI art, where one is "creative" and the other doomed to inherent unoriginality. Photography is at its basis unoriginal, since it is simply a capturing of the finite number of things that the world possesses within it. But the human quality of "creativity" gives it worth mixed in, as you say. What then makes it such that the AI's derivative work is inherently unoriginal, even with human input in the form of prompting, another direction where "creativity" is inserted? I could make the rather douchey point that art is a mixture of influences, language is taught and learned. On one end, people copy-paste from google, and on the other create beautiful essays from a synthesis of prior work. The existence of the derivative is not a condemnation of the refined form of the derivative: the creative. Prompting and iteration aren't precise, but the process of human discernment for what is the desired result (creativity) in gaining precise results is a counterpart to the more classical process of composing artistic work. AI art isn't necessarily ethically correct, but it isn't a-artistic. So yeah I don't necessarily agree. But no other video makes me think and clarify my views like this either. I have little intention to contest your grander points, anyway.
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  360. 1:10:40 I'm glad someone found the words for this.
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  361. Okay I might be absolutely WASTED rn and my headspace stuffed so far into kink land but the fact that the guy STATES that axie infinity IS A GODDAMNED PONZI SCHEME and then has the fuckin gall TO SAY HED SUPPORT IT LONG TERM like wow NFT con artists aren’t even artists by that definition they’re just FUCCIN thugs and bandits
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  362. Do you read/listen/watch John Bois? I like the google earth bit.
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  363. imagine fucking up so bad that you have the reverse problem of PoE -- where everything after the demo of a campaign is shit.
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  364. Damn that was a great vid bro was hooked just as much those gambling addicts, as for vidyagames I've given up hope that anything triple A will be anything but a way to make money since GTA V and diablo now, I just stick to indies
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  365. CRIMINALLY underviewed
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  366. What book are you reading at 18:55? It looks super interesting
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  367. Super high quality stuff, McGee. I don't have anything really insightful to say other than I thoroughly enjoy these videos when such much feels the same.
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  368. love to get a notification from your channel!
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  369. New Jimmy upload? I don’t know about gambling, but I sure hit the jackpot.
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  370. I actually play the Pokemon TCG competitively. It's a fun game and the social atmosphere is really positive. The game is cheap if you just want to play with one or two good decks; you can view tournament results to scope out good, cheap decks (ranging around 30-40$ generally) and you can buy the individual cards for it online for cheap. The expensive cards you see people going crazy about in pack opening videos tend to be alternate rare versions of cards that are actually only a few dollars (if they're opening packs from newer sets). I didn't open any card packs once I started playing until I received some as a reward at a tournament, months into playing the game. That said, I see the abusive gambling psychology play out right in my face all the time. Players with massive, expensive collections that spend money everytime they go just to play with friends, in some cases multiple times a week. Players that rub their card packs or have other rituals before opening them. I was asked by a new player whether buying a specific product was worth it at the game shop, and I explained it was overpriced and I showed them how to buy the deck they actually wanted to play for cheap by buying singles. They thanked me, and then ended up buying it anyway. It's absolutely predatory, but it's hard to accept you've been conned. I've personally had many internal battles convincing myself not to spend pointless money so many times despite knowing exactly why I've felt that way. It's honestly really scary.
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  371. you should play super meat boy, it destilles everything smb 1 on its design
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  372. Your videos are honestly some of the best on this website, let alone for videos centered around videogames. Your section about value engineering was also incredibly good, far better of an explanation than I could ever dream of making. Thank you so much for making such great videos!
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  373. I see my comment has been answered lol, happy to see you talking about the series
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  374. You have such a beautiful way of articulating your thoughts and ideas! I have some very minor disagreements with some of your takes but overall I'm all about much of what you expressed here. Keep up the fantastic work!
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  375. Good stuff, I really enjoy your format and appreciate the work you put into your videos!
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  376. Great video as always! Love both your editing and your commentary.
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  377. you've got such an incredible wit "a market solution for loneliness" made me pause and mull it over for a moment
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  378. I dedicate this first comment to my brother and 2 best friends!
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  379. Yeah, slot machines are cool and all, but do they come bundled with Windows XP from the get-go? I didn't think so! While I'm barely at the 10-minute mark of the video, I can already tell it's going to be another great documentary. Merry (very early) Christmas, my brother!
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  380. I love Abner Jay
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  381. i fucking love your videos man keep up the good work
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  382. this video's fantastic, the pacing and editing is a lot better than part 1 I always loved how your video essays kinda made the viewer think instead of just thinking for them also complete coincidence, i rewatched your previous video yesterday
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  383. The great thing about classic Diablo games is that they're still being kept alive by the dedicated fanbase. You like the methodical, tense and gritty dungeon crawling of D1? Then The Hell is for you! Just want a facelift for the game with quality of life features? DevilutionX. Want it to play more like D2? Try Belzebub or Chernobog. And then there's a myriad of gameplay mods for D2, one of the more popular and playable (because of how customizable it is) is PD2, which might be the definitive way of playing it today. D2 also got a competently made remaster, shame about its mod support though, it's not quite there yet, but hopefully they'll get to it soon. (Or maybe never lol, short of reverse engineering missing parts) So what about newer Diablo games? Lol, nope. Nada. The bread and butter of community creative expression is gone with online only play, which was lame back then and is still lame now. You play them once, you clear them once, and then that's it. There's no urge to max out your characters or complete your personal grail by collecting every unique item. It's just a product that expects you to put a lot of hours into it, but it's more busywork and not fun at all. And you know what? No one's got time for that, everyone's fed up with it these days.
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  384.  @JimmyMcG33  I applied for early access but wasnt big enough at the time.
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  385. Jimmy McGee try not to make the best video on the website with every new upload challenge (impossible)
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  386. Gonna listen through this at work today. Haven't seen it yet besides a few minutes, but I am already a fan :)
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  387. I don't remember your paint thinner analogy exactly but I think you misunderstand what it does 😅 paint thinner helps you KEEP details, not remove them. The opposite of what you said
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  388. “If we decide to play the game… for some reason” Anyway this was an awesome video, id love to see some more positive videos but to be fair I havent given the guided tours a chance because I dont really want a guided tour. Branding issue or taste issue? Idk nice work tho
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  389. 12:20 the goldfish is a symbol of wealth and luck
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  390. I appreciate your expression again, every one of your videos makes me feel a little bit more like finding some way to put my voice out there artistically
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  391. The quality and effort that you put into your videos is amazing. Can't wait til your channel really blows up; reminds me of when I first watched NakeyJakey and saw that channel explode. Obviously different aesthetics but the passion and dedication is undeniable.
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  392. bro went off the rails at the end there lol
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  393. God Its hard to put into words how much I respect your work and your drive to create good videos. Youre a true visionary💚💚
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  394. Thank you very much for the great video
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  395. 24:29 lmao yeah. sounds about right 😂 no way this wouldn't be spun into a Venom style situation I think
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  396. Funnily enough, when I came to fight the Scav Chieftain, there were about 20 regular scavs in the battle as well, so utilizing her skills was necessary. Perhaps that's how that fight was suppoused to go down? Since you were understadably irked by the 1v1 boss fight (it seemed anticlimactic)
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  397. This channel is doing for narrated videogame analysis video essays on youtube what Every Frame A Painting did for film analysis video essays, or what Jim Can't Swim did for true crime videos.
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  398. "Retention mechanics" makes me want to vomit
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  399. ayyy! phirmth mention! found their channel recently and was shocked at how overlooked it was dispite how good the content is. hope this will help get them more attention!
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  400. Nice to see after your ‘god I hate modern culture’ videos your playing something you like
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  401. For everything bad about ai, the new tech buzzword being thrown around, at least it isn't cryptocurrency. Oh and the upscaling models work pretty well.
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  402. Hello Jimmy. Thanks for your video. It really made me think about my social life, about games and so on. In the end, I decided to delete some of the games i played.
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  403. Excellent as always Jimmy. Also, anyone know what the song at 22:38 is?
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  404. also you’re an incredible video maker that deserves and will likely eventually get hundreds of thousands of subs some day
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  405. I don’t have anything of substance to add, just wanted to boost this shit in the algorithm
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  406. Honey, wake up. A Guided Tour is on!
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  407. When ever I watch you I just wanna go listen to Žižek. No, I won't explain further.
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  408. another excellent video you've fast become my favourite gaming analysis
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  409. your videos just keep getting better, man
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  410. i do love my daily dose of vidya doomposting
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  411. I love this game. Bought it years back, a classic for me now. Can get very intense and never finished it, but every run was big fun. A must buy if these games are your cup of tea!
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  412. Great video Jimmy
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  413. really enjoyed this video. keep up the great work!
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  414. Kino
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  415. d4 bad
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  416. I just want to say that I really like the phrase "Nothing dies down here". Just, in a vacuum, that's a good phrase.
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  417. Another video so sooon? Fuck yes
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  418. slotbros 💀
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  419. i love jimmy mcgee
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  420. The Void Rains Upon Her Heart is a very good indie SCHMUP that’s been in development for 4 years and I would recommend a lot. The section on the shooter section makes me want to try out some of the older games so I’d figure to share a modern one
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  421. Fantastic vid again, I'll have to check this out . Man if you haven't played darkwood check it out tho, yer noggin will explode
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  422. The iterator text is a bit too small to see on mobile, besides that, it was a really good video. You brought critiques I haven’t heard before.
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  423. This series is NYT level
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  424. Wake up babe new jimmy mcgee video just dropped
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  425. Time to learn something!
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  426. Happy Hanukkah
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  427. UN Owen Was Jimmy?! I love good vids on shmups like this because I just cannot play them. The visuals overwhelm me every single time, I get too lost in trying to dodge every single thing all at once. Speed isn’t a problem, I play plenty of fast-paced stuff as well as slow-paced “think, then act” games, but bullet hell completely shuts me down every time because there’s just too much going on visually, even if I try to logic that effect away by trying to visualize it as just those simple shapes and patterns. I don’t know what flavor of spectrum that is but no matter how I practice I just can’t get past that. Had a friend who was absurdly good at them in high school; he was definitely on the opposite end of the spectrum from me and literally had my problem but in reverse where he didn’t have the patience for anything that wasn’t fast, lol. Either way I’m always interested to get a glimpse into what the average enjoyers get out of these games. They’re genuinely important little pieces of design that have had great effects on gaming as a whole, so I’ve never wanted to write them off just because I can’t hang with it like I see some others do.
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  428. I know this is super late but the mule that kills beard isn’t the same nuke as the last one. I’m pretty sure the first nuke was dropped in California and that takes place before the events of the first game.
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  429. incredible work
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  430. I've been complaining about player retention schemes in D4 since the start. And everybody on the tech forums where I mainly talked about D4 told me I was wrong or 'seeing ghosts'. I don't feel pity for those people who enjoy having themselves stuck in a player retention setup without realizing it, even if it's right there in front of them. Let people enjoy wasting their time and money if they are oblivious to it. There can be a million critique videos about D4, it won't change or improve anything. I have been playing since D1 as well and just uninstalled D4 again after playing last season. There are so many games that are more fun to play than D4. I'm still doubting to give Season 4 a try with the new changes, but I don't expect any changes when it comes to player retention. Ever. I had more fun in D3 than in D4. I had more fun in D2 than in D3, I had more fun in D2 than in D1. D2 is the best game, especially when you play the Median XL mod which allows you to play fully in multiplayer. It takes the best Diablo game (D2) and elevates it to a whole new level. High resolution, completely new world, endgame content that keeps you playing, it allows you to craft everything, completely new skills, audio effects, visual effects, balancing... D2 Median XL is the one and only true best Diablo game.
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  431. you continue to inspire, entertain, and teach and I am always so excited to see an upload! thank you for everything ❤
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  432. more and more reason to not engage in triple A content :)
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  433. Ablsolutely astonishing video quality and presentation. You rock!
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  434. this is a very good video
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  435. Never understood pachinko until now
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  436. Yayyy
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  437. I'm a jimmymcgee fan and I recreationally use crack :) btw this video is gonna be awesome
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  438. always happy to see this crt tv again
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  439. The comment about audio reliance reminds me of DoomRL, with the monster growls telling direction and identity. So does the map visuals with regular Doom 1 + 2.
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  440. I have never played a fromsoft game but you have my attention, Jimbo.
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  441. This is the only video essay I've ever recognized as special simply after looking at the chapter titles.
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  442. Best gaming videos on the site. Cheers!
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  443. Can we get a "Noita: A Guided Tour" next? Would love to hear you opinion on that.
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  444. another upload another banger heck yeah
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  445. Thanks for making this video
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  446. although the game was overlooked it is a hidden gem of its own. Thought no one plays this game anymore till now really glad people still talk about it, really an awesome review keep it up👍
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  447. very neat stuff. i recently had my version of youtube vanced stop working on my phone so I've been immersed in AI voiced ads for old people 401k scams and "ai-ified" moving images of some sort of religious website in a language I dont know so this one scratches an itch for me
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  448. also not to mention the weird AI hosted public domain movies channel I see my grandmother watching occasionally
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  449. It would be great if you got subtitles on your videos
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  450. I was thinking about this game a few weeks back. Had forgotten the name and wondered what it was really like since most channels I followed gave up due to difficulty.
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  451. what's the sound at 49:28 It's been on the tip of my tongue for months now
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  452. Have never played a Souls game or anything in the genre, but I enjoy your video game videos so here we go 🍿
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  453. new jimmy mcgee video hell yes your stuff is great
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  454. @Jimmy McGee You and MatthewMatosis were my biggest inspiration to start YouTube, and it’s brought me a lot of joy being able to express myself that way. Hope life is treating you well, and great job as always :)
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  455. I couldn't think of anything meaningful to put in a comment to boost your algorithm points, so... In your script, at the beginning of what is titled "The Video", in the last sentence of the third paragraph: it's*
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  456. Great video
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  457. insane video, love every second of it
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  458. The song at 1:10:33 is a song I've heard probably a dozen times, and while I always recognize it, I can never remember the title. Can you please remind me? Edit: Ah, I see you list all the music in the end credits. I was too busy to finish the video at the time lol This is another fantastic breakdown and history of video games. If you haven't seen it already (though considering your research, I'm not sure you'd need to) you should check out Emplemon's video "The sacrifices to the church of Nintendo".
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  459. Dang it, have to play before watching. I think I can say great video in advance though
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  460. Man that paradigm shift 2070 cut got me good. As a pod person subsisting off of content-based nutritional slurry this really hit the spot! Keep it up!!
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  461. I watched this essay around when it came out and still think about your conclusions and outlook often
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  462. Dude your build when you're fighting Malenia is insane
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  463. I've been binge watching this channel and now this video comes out
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  464.  @JimmyMcG33  Okay, I knew I had heard that music before, OFF is an excellent game. I liked a lot of the other music choices throughout your video as well (Super Mario Sunshine, Cruelty Squad, Wind Waker)
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  465. Life and responsibilities once again preventing me from enjoying Jimmy Bump anyways for the algorithm, this is going to be so good
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  466. I FUCKING LOVE TELEGLIIIIIITCH
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  467. Whoah, thank You 💜
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  468. y'all should play exceed 3rd! it's hard to obtain because of publishing stuff but it has my favorite point-blank in shmups. your damage is absolute garbage at range so it's a requirement to get close up to enemies, or they'll overfill the screen simply because the level spawns in more hitpoints per second then you're outputting. i won't say its the best game ever (and 1 and 2 are awful), but's it's a really fun gimmick.
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  469. so goated
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  470. whatever you call this video, its a banger
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  471. I've been waiting and hoping you'd post this. can't wait to make my dinner and watch this masterpiece.
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  472. I don't understand why people insist on perpetuating the myth that there's a Diablo 3 and 4. The story ended with the death of Baal in the Worldstone Chamber on Mt Arreat.
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  473. This channel needs like 1m more subs. Crazy valuable content!
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  474. another game with a similar aesthetic is air gallet, which has some great moments that hit just right because of how grounded the art style is. the first stage ends with you chasing a discovery space shuttle taking off as you shoot off its huge launch engines. the second stage, a city stage, culminates in a boss fight over the tokyo tower, which has a parallax effect that really sells how huge the tower is and how close you are to it, even from an overhead perspective. very beautiful stuff. the sound is great too, lots of radio chatter in english that helps ground it further. as a game its probably less considered in its mechanics, since you can milk bosses very hard and the medals are simpler. I'm no expert tho, so who knows. it was also designed by a toaplan veteran. definitively worth checking out for anyone who found the description of raiden fighters 2 in this video compelling
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  475. I could really tell I would enjoy this game from the introduction alone, so I stopped watching and played the game myself. I just got Ending D a couple hours ago with minimal guide reading (I forgot where to find the tea party) and I loved it, it was a great way to spend my weekend. That's yet another game you covered that I've gated watching you talk about to play for myself, and I'm very okay with it continuing to happen. Keep doing what you do man!
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  476. oh hey i just rewatched the first part lately hehe, time to dig in
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  477. this is a great surprise
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  478. I appreciate that I get to rediscover this channel every time one of your videos pops into my feed :3
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  479. Hey just curious. Have you heard of the game ESA? Very simple looking but has an amazing grappling hook and dash movement mechanics, followed with a unique and creative metroid-vania world; and great music too!
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  480. this was a bloody good video..
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  481. Oh! I love this game, it never got the appreciation it deserved. Excited to watch this video for the next hour!!
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  482. there's a lot to say about this video but i was completely blindsided by a clip of ACCELE BRID showing up. jesus christ.
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  483. oh god i haven't watched the video yet but I am so fucking excited !!!!
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  484. fantastic work!
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  485. Wake up babe, new jimmy mcgee video dropped
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  486. Can you recommend some books or videos on how our economy works on a fundamental level? While you were talking about stagflation I got the sense you probably have a really good grasp on the topic. Most of the videos or books floating around are basically just ads or investment advice, I find it difficult to find media that really focuses on the underlying workings and so on. I've already watched some videos from coldfusion, Mike Maloney (hidden secrets of money) and ray dalio. I also started reading ''the big short'' by Michael Lewis. I understand the basics of how money is generated, inflation and how the 2008 housing crisis came to be. But don't know how to further my knowledge, maybe you have some tips? Apart from that this was a great video. I love that you don't force your opinion down the viewers throat by keeping a monotone voice and not getting over-emotional on the topic. Looking forward to future content.
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  487. i can't shake off the feeling, how amazing it would be if they made full length movie out of HM lore, but not in chronological way, rather kinda like Lucas with SW, do it in order how games presented which would mean flashbacks from middle point and nuke in about 3/4ths of the film length, putting even more emphasis on how pointless that violence is. Maybe from POV of Jacket watching through old VHS
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  488. This is the best YouTube video I’ve seen in about 5 years. Amazing job man
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  489. I've been looking forward to your video on this!
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  490. Sikkibty
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  491. First!!! 😁
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  492. Dude I remember buying this on Desura back in the day lmao
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  493. I simply have no words. Your retrospectives are always incredible. Thank you for shining a light towards Rain World once more.
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  494. Great video :D
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  495. Beautiful video as always. I've gotten into several arguments with friends about artificial "intelligence" that I was quite frankly out of my depth to explain, and I think you've done it brilliantly, taking into account the ongoing construction around the technology.
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  496. just want to take this opportunity, since this is your first new vid since I subscribed, to say your videos are absolutely top notch. every bit as insightful as other channels with far bigger audiences. keep up the fantastic work.
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  497. 42:00 you should've mentioned Star Of Providence! It's a shooter that's probably also the best roguelike ever made (or at least, my favourite); it does an amazing job of mixing the two genres in a way that I can't really put to words. It gets compared to zero ranger a lot, but I've not played that to see how close the comparison is.
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  498. I like how you give "the air" in your narration by having some voiceless sections since your review of Rain World. This stuff really makes you pretty unique content maker on YT.
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  499. Youre on a roll with all of these videos holy shit
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  500. september 1985 saw the release of smb, the definitive console platformer, and also ghost n goblins, the definitive arcade platformer. its very interesting to look at both of them as charting distinct paths through the same general territory
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  501. Enemy scaling is the main reason I didn't buy this game. Completely defeats the point of 'levels' existing at all.
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  502. gotta say. i had a fight or flight response when i heard the words "everypony"
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  503. The algorithm has blessed me upon this day
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  504. absolutely mint 👍
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  505. SMB is the darksouls of platformers
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  506. Incredible metaphors and incredible video 10 minutes in.
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  507. Loved it. Keep up the good work!
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  508. fascinating video
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  509. 1:32:27 Vibri's a rabbit smh. and back off, she's mine
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  510. "Give into your base instinct" Yeah, this sounds like the issue I had with the universe of song of fire and ice... So many of the decisions don't make sense unless you decide to insert the idea that the whole continent is infected with some kind of sickness or parasite that exaggerates their need for violence. I made a similar argument with someone who criticized people for asking for Diablo in our Diablo game. their argument was that the story has already been told so many times. why bother? Why bother? Because obviously we never learn. In our pursuit to destroy the demons we succumb to the allure of their power. We can say that it's because we want to slay the evils... But at the end of the day it's really only for ourselves. And now I see the ending and think wtf is this? They really overcomplicated a simple premise. When you said something about how the system would normally make you nauseous, I started imagining myself in this scenario. Getting mindlessly distracted by one activity then another being told subtly to forget about the objective you're supposed to be going towards. Then you talked about how D4 is called a 'hybrid casual' and I realised that for the last few minutes of watching you I was steadily feeling more and more nauseous. This is the epitomy of why I won't be able to play D4 and don't want to. Like you said, this is a game designed by an MMO company that feels more like a mobile game.
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  511. I like that callback to your cruelty squad video. Reminded me to rewatch it
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  512. I have been WAITING for this. Thank you J!
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  513. The amount of effort you've put into researching all of this, scriptwriting, editing, and the immense quantity of vintage/period correct ads, TV spots etc. blows my mind! You could probably do a whole short series on tangents you had to leave on the cutting room floor. Amazing work as always. Keen to see the next part in this series.
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  514. having watched the video now, i really enjoyed it. especially the end
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  515. 1 minute gang
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  516. Great thumbnail!
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  517. Another excellent video. Thanks for all you do!
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  518. Your contennt is rlly fantastic and im sure that you will make it big
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  519. D4 bad
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  520. It really frustrates me that this channel doesn't instantly get hundreds of thousands of views the day every single video releases. I'm not naming names but there are so many big name "video game analysis" channels that are utterly shallow in comparison.
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  521. 13:45 fuck that was spooky😂
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  522. When I started the video at work I was like “wtf am I listening to”, then I realized you were playing an AI script lmao
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  523. what i got from this video is that deadeye deepfake simulacrum might be one of the few genuine pieces of ai art, and that i wanna buy it
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  524. oh yeah jimmy upload
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  525. Man, I didn't realize this was a series until now, HUH
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  526. 45:05 i was wondering when a cruelty squad theme would come up
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  527. another fantastic video chief
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  528. Kero Blaster soundtrack? My man.
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  529. The absolute state of kino! Love your content very much!! Edit: Just finished the video. And good job recommending Knight's Try. Love that game.
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  530. I'm annoyed that you didn't talk about the shmup I played one time for 2 levels as a 12 y/o who has no idea which game that was, I only know it had a helicopter and upgradable heat seeking Missiles. Jokes aside, also where was the skill-share sponsor? You HAD the Segway at the end for it haha, EVEN MORE jokes aside, great video overall, I will do and share more positivity in 2024 and cut out less positive stuff that enters my curated bubble. Your videos are a delight. EDIT: Oh and I'll definitely will check out graze counter, I dismissed it the first time around when I heard someone with as you said "a questionable thumbnail on youtube" I only saw the thumbnail and then when it popped on my steam store I ignored it, I don't like that, but I probably will like the game.
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  531. your videos are an absolute delight to watch
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  532. Tried to fall a sleep to this. But I couldn't, because it was too interesting! 😉
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  533. Great video! You convey your ideas very well and clearly.
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  534. Here's some engagement. Thanks for making a video about one of the few games I find perfectly designed.
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  535. Thoughts on bandcamp?
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  536. cool 👍
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  537. Hey keep up the great content! Im excited to give this a listen on my commute tomorrow!
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  538. THERE WERE NO GAMEPLAY SECTIONS, HOW THE HELL AM SUPPOSED TO SLEEP NOW?
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  539. Based jimmy strikes again
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  540. Great vid man, one of my favorite choices that you make in your videos is when you step back and let the game play take up space both visually and audibly.
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  541. What’s the song that starts playing at 3:00? Also if you happen to read this comment, nice vid!
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  542. Crazy timing with the Loot reborn update coming out today that supposedly changes a ton
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  543. Oh wow, i feel like i should leave a comment :)
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  544. Got into rainworld dp recently and watched your old rainworld video a couple months ago and loved it. I'm so happy to see another video essay from you regarding the DLC. Thanks in advance for the content.
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  545. You seem to really dislike videogame lore uh
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  546. D4 bad. PoE kinda mid rn
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  547. see you at a million subs dude killer vid
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  548. Watching your channel gives me that feeling of finding a really obscure but fantastic band you just have to show your friends, great job once again.
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  549. Wow, I just watched your original video yesterday. I was lying in bed and this popped up in my feed; to give some context, I had no idea until I just checked how recently Downpour released. Talk about lucky timing haha. I think that your analysis of the saint at the end of the video was incredibly apt, for the record. As a trans fem who was born and raised in a Catholic environment, and who subsequently have wound up going into a highly analytic field adjacent to philosophy, I think your assessment of the themes rings true. I'd like to hear someone make a deep dive video discussing the philosophy present in Rainworld sometime
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  550. The game would have been a masterpiece if Stan did Default dance after hearing "you chose tyranny when offered freedom"
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  551. I would say that this video was a waste of time, but it's actually helped me solidify even more why I think anti-ai crowd are losers. They cry about irreverent shit, make up problems, make false claims, while providing Literally no solutions. They can't provide solutions specifically because they don't understand the problems, and can't provide politically effective or realistic ways to solve them "So it [the responsibility] falls on us" my ass, dude
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  552. A new Jimmy video! Yess!!
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  553. love your videos. love you even more. keep making amazing stuff
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  554. Very serendipitous that this came out the same day as Mark's "Passion Against Reason" doc. I loved your gambling videos, so I'm happy to see you spreading the good news about arcade style games in general.
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  555. your first rainworld video almost made me cry. ready for this!
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  556. Another great video. Even when I sometimes disagree with a point it's clear you get it in a way most don't. I'm also glad someone hates Odyssey as much as I do. It's arguably beneath this channel, but I'd love to see you just recommend a bunch of obscure games. There's only so much one has the strength to find sifting through Steam; you search for sokoban and get a bunch of borderline porn, or similar garbage.
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  557. Another banger from Jimmy! If this is the new level of quality, I can't wait for the next video in the Pay To Win series 🙌
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  558. Phirmth mentioned!!
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  559. I was hoping to see this video from you. Excited to hear your commentary!
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  560. Today was a good day to buy popcorn
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