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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